Linux infection proves Windows malware monopoly is over

[Basil Chupin]

On 15/06/10 15:22, Christopher Chan wrote:
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> On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:49 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
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>> Linux infection proves Windows malware monopoly is over
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>> Every time I write about Windows security software, I get a predictable
>> flood of responses from Linux advocates who claim that they don't need
>> any such protection.
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> Linux operating systems do not get infected. There are no virii that
> work on Linux. You can get trojaned or rootkitted but you won't get self
> replicating malware. Linux operating systems get cracked. And that has
> always been the only means of dropping malware.

Do I have things wrong and not fully understand the implications of 
"security" and "cracking" and "hacking"...I do admit ignorance in this 
field.

But isn't there an annual competition where the person who 
"hacks"/"cracks" the Windows or MAC or Linux system earns a prize of 
(?)$1000 plus the expensive laptop on which that OS was installed?

And so far the only one not "cracked"/"hacked" has been Linux?

Am I right? I would - seriously - like to be told that I am wrong in 
what I just stated.

BC


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