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On 30/10/11 15:34, Martijn Grooten wrote:
And because MS OS and OS X are often set up to auto-run downloaded executables. This unusual in Linux. Also Linux has a strict separation between root and user space and consequently if a user ran an executable it would usually only affect the user and not the system as a whole.On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Neil Winchurst wrote:I am always careful anyway, but I have always thought that such viruses will not run in Linux. Is that true? I do not have any Windows computers at all so I feel safe, but perhaps I shouldn't.In general, you are (a lot) safer using Linux and with a piece of Windows malware you can be all but certain it won't run under Linux. That's mostly because Linux usage is so much smaller than that of Windows; now that Macs have become popular, Mac malware is on the rise too.
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