Linux: Why you should switch

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redspear said:

No viruses? yes there are viruses...There are not many viruses and a lot are proof of concept but they are there. The rest are macros that attack installed programs again fewer than say what there is for its competition.

Virus.Linux.Alaeda (Kaspersky Lab) [...]
Alaeda is a non-resident virus. It infects systems running Linux, and is written in Assembler. It infects ELF format files in the current directory.

Virus.Linux.Diesel.962 [...]
This is a relatively harmless, non-memory resident parasitic virus. It searches for Linux executable files in system directories and subdirectories, then writes itself to the middle of the file. Before searching files, the virus reads its code from the host file. It moves the original bytes to the end of the file and increases the size of the previous section.

As for no Anti Virus programs? there are quite a few even with submit a file features so that htey can be inspected.

http://www.clamav.net/

Viruses do exist in Linux they are mostly Macros though and there are actual and real anti virus software for Linux. There are a ton of proof of concepts....BTW the first major viruses were on UNIX systems in the early 80s

Let me explain this to you a bit better: of course viruses exist on Linux, or I should say ATTEMPTS at viruses, but, listen well, NONE OF THEM WORKS! There's even a HOWTO on making Linux viruses. However, it says from the start that the viruses just won't work at all.

Everyone of the viruses you listed just don't work. Notice they're all non-resident virus. Do you know what this means? This means that for your virus to work, you have to specifically login as root, make it executable, and then execute it every time you want to be infected. How retarded is that? And the worst thing is that you cited them without even understanding that you were disproving your point.

Let me tell you: typing 'rm' and erasing all of your directory will make more damage than these so-called viruses.

Even worse, even if I did the first step of making these things executables on, say, my wife's account, it still wouldn't work AT ALL. Because your virus will be hard pressed to find any ELF file on my wife's account, and even if it did, it would never be used anyway.

 

To show your ignorance even more, you talk to me about clamav. Of course I know clamav, and of course there are antivirus on Linux, I said that specifically. I also said they are not for Linux, but rather for virus infected data that may pass through a Linux OS, which is for now completely immune to them, and could land on a Windows OS. ClamAV purpose is basically to protect Windows OS, NOT Linux. Go read what the purpose of clamav is and try to understand instead of saying nonsense. Clamav is not a resident antivirus like there are on Windows, for the simple fact that it is NOT necessary. And I know that perfectly well as I use it at home and installed it in big enterprises for their mail proxies, where it is used in majority, to, guess what, protect Windows OS.

And no, there are no antivirus for Linux, meaning no resident Linux antivirus like you find on Windows, not even NOD32 does that, it's just useless.

 

And stop your BS, there was no Unix viruses in the 80s. Perhaps you thought of worms (related to daemons, not to OS), but you're so clueless about the matter, you couldn't understand the difference.

 

But I'm not surprised you're so clueless, it goes with the rest of what you said. I meet countless clueless people like you in IT.