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In Reply to: RE: Once upon a time posted by MylesJ on November 06, 2009 at 11:13:37
The big reason virii will not propagate under Linux is as soon as there is a download, Linux asks what you want to do with the download- what application you want to open with it. It can't autoexecute, and of course most virii do not 'support' the Linux environment, nor is the Linux community doing anything to aggravate its user base, so there are no viruses out in the wild.
Sure you can compromise Firefox. But that is not the same as compromising the system! Windows OTOH if you compromise Explorer, you have access to the root level of the Windows kernel- people don't realize that Exploter and Lookout are kernal services, not separate programs. That's why Windows is so vulnerable. With Linux you have to go through a few layers.
On top of that just the plain reliability is another issue entirely. I have been running Linux at a user level (I really just point and click for most of my work) for 9 years. In that time I think I might have seen a kernal crash once. There is not a windows user in the world that can say that! That's what I mean by no drama: no rebooting, no goofy 'unresponsive' stuff (y'all know what I mean!) no fiddling around. It just works.
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