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From: Colin Wilson 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Linux/virus
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:27:42 -0000
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> Doesn't Linux need an anti-virus and anti-spyware.
> Or is it by some miracle immune?

Further to the other answers, while some core components are similar, 
the variety of software available to do other tasks varies significantly 
- so a virus that might try to exploit a hole in an email app for 
example, might find that only a tiny percentage of machines out there 
actually use the same software and might be vulnerable to it.
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