Virus Issue 2

[Andre Truter]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:21:53 -0700, Shawn Christopher
<schristopheraz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
[..]
> >  and that our main concern should be protection against
> > viruses. The Anti-Virus companies are riding this wave and promoting
> > the idea so they can sell mainly useless software to people.
> 
> Trust me I work second tier for an ISP while the only thing we support
> is Windows....trust me it's not useless compare one computer not
> infected to a computer that is infected
> 

No, I am not saying all Anti-virus software is useless, it is
extremely useful on Windows, but it is mainly useless to a Linux user.

[..]

> > At this stage though, scaring people with Linux viruses are doing more
> > damage than any good.
> 
> It's going to come one day. The more you try to make Linux more popular
> the more it is going to attract that kind of attention. Kinda the "If
> you build it they will come" syndrome. If Linspire hadn't been such a
> big joke and kinda fizzled outa the media then someone woulda wrote a
> virus for it. Let Linux go 3D (I know there is supposed to be a distro
> that does) and demo it like Windows makes commercials and just watch
> these kids try to break it....it'll happen
> 

Well, if the correct culture can be brought in with Linux, then
viruses will never have an effect on Linux.
But reality teach us that the chances of the correct culture being
accepted by the masses are very small.  Big corporations will see to
that...


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Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282
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