[pchelpers] Re: Watchtower On Linux

Well you could have knocked me over with a feather. I knew that some 
viruses could affect Linux through e-mail, on many in the list it does 
not state how it is transmitted, thus the mode could still be e-mail, 
although it stands to reason that since packages are opensource that 
someone may insert a virus into the code.
However it is still apparent that Linux is still the safer choice.
Gregory D. Watts
CompTIA A+ ITPro Member
Preferred Linux Ubuntu User
Tasana Computers/931-823-2221
http://www.tasanacomputers.com


Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi Gregory,
> 
> Sunday, January 21, 2007, 8:35:11 AM, you wrote:
> 
> GDW> Linux has been around for about since about 1983 (Windows about
> GDW> 1982) Today Windows has 10's of thousands of malware written for
> GDW> it, Linux NONE.
> 
> Here are several dozen of the "none":
> http://searchg.symantec.com/search?sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&client=symc_en_US&q=Linux&site=symc_en_US_vir&proxystylesheet=symc_en_US&filter=0
> (Symantec apparently has a hard limit of 100 results).
> 


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