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(Unverified)Dec 30th 2009 9:49PM
No one said there are not viruses for Linux. There are byt they aren't just very effective.
For example take this deb virus.
Can it be effective in my Gentoo system? Can it be in OpenSuSE, Mandrive, RedHat etc etc? Nope since they need to build a diiferent packages with the virus with for specific distros. Ofcourse a virus in a slack package or gentoo ebuild can be effective only if the user wants to install a virus in his syetm just for fun.
So much complexity makes viruses ineffective in the same way it makes Linux ineffective in the goal to become popular in the desktops.
Ok I admit that Ubuntu is very popular so this specific virus would be able to infect the PCs of a lot of unfortunate users. So? Is Ubuntu the Linux? Nope. Just one flavour. It depends on the hands of the users.
-So, is Linux as less secure as windows are?
-Depends. It can be if the users are totally noobs.
-Can Linux become much more secure than windows?
-Sure it does. It can be if the users are not totallty noobs.
If you combine the above questions/answers you can see that Linux's security can be as low as windows' one and as high as possible with the current technology.
In a fortunate world, windows users will choose Ubuntu and other easy distros and then they will be experienced enough to choose more hardened distros, higher in security and compatible with their specific needs.