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On 5/1/05, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Virus writers pick on Windows because writing a virus for Windows is trivial. Writing a virus for GNU/Linux is hard.
This is all a contentious issue. I doubt that (in the end) Linux will be found to be entirely immune to viruses (or "virii" if you insist) and I think Linux users should at least acknowledge there may be reasons Linux doesn't have this problem aside from inherently better security. For example, one possible reason virus writers tend to pick on windows is that if you're going to write a virus you might as well write it to infect the most widely used OS. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html