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August 6, 2004
Linux infections
Linux infections: "Ninety two percent of survey respondents indicated that their Linux systems have never been infected with a virus." Does this mean "Linux is safer than Windows"? Not by itself it doesn't, because the result alone doesn't factor in the difference in raw numbers of attempts. That type of argument is sort of the flip side of the people who say "Look, Mozilla had a security problem too, so nothing is perfect." (Note how many of the Linux exploits were due to social-engineering or misconfigurations... what you do with something is still as important as what it is.)
Posted by John Dowdell at August 6, 2004 3:54 PM