[LAD] Linux Malware

Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 15:32:57 UTC 2012


On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Louigi Verona wrote:
> Hey guys!
>
> This is an Offtopic question, really, but I wanted to ask people I know and
> people who are developers - what are the reasons there are (almost) no
> viruses on Linux?

Technically I could be wrong, but ... Lots of viruses come via mail.
On Linux it means executing binary files from mail clients. Well,

1) mail clients on Linux don't do that
2) the executable attribute of a file is lost when you send it anyway.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org



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