Grisoft Predicts Linux Virus Plague

[Tim]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:49 -0400, taharka wrote:

> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143697/grisoft-warns-linux-virus

"Grisoft, makers of the popular AVG Anti-Virus offering, has warned that
it is 'only a matter of time' before Linux becomes widely targeted by
virus and malware writers."

Hmm, well, there'll have to be a fundamental shift in the way Linux
works, first, before a *virus* can do something.  

Being widely targeted doesn't mean a thing, being protected by something
with the tensile strength of a paper bag (Windows) is the problem.
That's a problem Linux doesn't have.

Even if someone does produce an as-stupid-as-Windows distribution of
Linux, only the idiots who use it will be in trouble.  The rest of us
with more sense will use other distributions, to which feeble attempts
at penetration are just water of a duck's back.

This's all just snakeoil salesmanship.

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