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datalas:

--- Quote from: "Range Rover Blues" ---
In that 'you can't crash your car if you walk' sort of way?
I just can't understand the mentality of peopl who write viruses in the first place, what a waste of their talents and our time.  Should be shot!
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In most cases there simply isn't any talent to be wasted.  The initial exploit is usually concocted by somebody to prove a point, namely that there is a problem that need addressing.. This then becomes a virus with an active payload by process of some sad little norbert getting his hands on it.

Sadly, it is percieved as "cool" (more probably "kewl") in these circles to do these sorts of things, the more notoriety it gains the more "kewl" the person that did it.  This is one of the reasons why Windows get's it in the neck so often (it's not the only reason, having a security model dreamed of in a more niave time doesn't help), there is less notoriety to be gained at the moment from attacking linux (it's also harder since it primarily lives in the domain of the geek and is updated every ten minutes).

For anyone that tells you that Linux is be definition more secure, I'm sorry to say this isn't true.  Everyone makes mistakes and whilst they are addressed quickly in the linux comminity this makes little odds when people only update their machine once in a blue moon.

if you know what you're doing you can keep a windows machine running for quite a while with no problems (/me touches everything made of wood in the world)

erm...  I had a point, but I forgot it...

oh yeah,  shoot them by all means,  it's not likely to be a waste of anything.

muddyweb:

--- Quote from: "pdutton" ---Change to a better OS - Linux  :!:
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Is Linux not vulnerable to hardware faults then ?

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