One of the biggest problems with Linux and viruses has nothing to do with Linux itself getting infected. One of the more common Linux virus related scenarios involves someone running Linux receiving an infected email from someone running Windows. The computer running Linux does not get infected, but it does pass it on if the email is forwarded. <div><br></div><div>Personally, in over a decade of running Linux I have never had a virus. You pretty much have to be socially engineered into it. As Manuel pointed out, know where you are installing your software from. I can see a potential scenario where a user searches for a PPA for something common, and then installs the first one they see looking at the PPA itself which may not be official and could contain the software they are looking for, recompiled with a vulnerability. That could be especially disastrous if you install a kernel with wget and don't pay attention to the URL.<br><br>On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Manuel Cuadra <manuelcua@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I just think that any OS can be potentially harmful, specially if you install whatever exists and believe in anything on the internet. The differences between Windows and Linux is that everyone can contribute to make it more secure to back doors and hacks so Linux is always more secure but not unbreakable, and Windows private code usually have a really big amount of security breaches that get´s resolved on a large amount of time and that makes the OS exposed to people knowing about those problems and exploits them as much as they want, and Windows charges you for that LOL, on the other hand, the Client has a lot of responsibilities that they should know about when installing an APP and from what source.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014/1/4 Ali Linx (amjjawad) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amjjawad@gmail.com" target="_blank">amjjawad@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Fred <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elfred999@gmail.com" target="_blank">elfred999@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Ali. Hi All.<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Hi,<br><br>But I was actually asking the list if they agree with me or with my neighbor who think "Linux is far from being free of malware??!!" :D<br><br></div><div>That is why I started the thread on Ubuntu Forums. I want to be corrected in case I am wrong :)<br>
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