And another Ubuntu convert!
Thomas Kaiser
ubuntu at kaiser-linux.li
Wed Jan 21 21:47:29 UTC 2009
Mark Haney wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>
>>>
>> Read the paper. A new kernel fixed whatever the problem was in 1996.
>> 13 years later there has not been a second virus.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>
>
> Yes a kernel upgrade fixed THAT ONE. But may I remind you that you
> really need to google something before you spout nonsense.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses
>
> This is why ignorance of a user of ANY operating system is bad. Very bad.
>
> Iv'e been in this game a long time. I know linux is vulnerable to
> viruses. Sure, there are fewer than windows, but that doesn't mean that
> there are NONE. I manage HPC systems for the Federal Government and on
> each and every one of those I have an AV package that runs and monitors
> everything. I'd be begging to get fired if I just assumed those systems
> would never get a virus 'because there are none'.
>
> Geez.
>
>
Geez,
looks like you are a troll!
Thomas
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