Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 04:19, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >>Also linux viruses occur only very seldom -- probably because of linux's >>different security approach. > > > Could it be because there are less number of desktop users using Linux than > windows? > > raju > No. It is because Linux was designed from the very beginning to: - support multiple users - have a sane security policy - operate on (dangerous) public networks OTOH, Windows was designed to: - support a single user (not just at a time, but on the whole system) - have no security policy whatsoever - operate on Microsoft's also-ran version of AOL/CompuServe/Prodigy Of course, you can look at Apache and IIS as good comparison. Apache has 66+ % of the web server market (depending on how you measure). However, the percentage of compromises/viruses/whatever are mostly toward IIS. Also, even if Linux and Mac had only 1% of the desktop market each, and there are (optimistically) about 30,000 windows viruses, where are the 300+ Mac viruses and 300+ Linux viruses that should be out there? That says nothing of the server market, where Linux has much more than 1%. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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