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From: ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Linux/virus
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:19:28 +0000
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Pete wrote:
> Doesn't Linux need an anti-virus and anti-spyware.
> Or is it by some miracle immune?

Its infertile environment for viruses is not by any means a miracle. 
It is the result of very deliberate efforts of developers who wanted 
better security at the initial expense of user (apparent) 
inconvenience (note 1) and the continuing efforts of every user who 
soon finds it is both unnecessary and unwise to run while logged in as 
admin.

The very few viruses that there are for linux have a really hard time 
spreading, partly for the reasons above.

Note 1:
Inconvenience is relative. I find the thousands of windows viruses 
actively in the wild inconvenient to such an extent that I do not use 
windows. The inconvenience of following a few simple formalities when 
installing programs in linux- is not inconvenient for me at all.
hth
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ac
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