"Andy Cap" wrote in message
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:32:46 +0100, "dennis@home"
wrote:


He is another of those linux people that thinks he is safe, wrongly!

Then he should read this from the Symantec page.

"Rootkits first appeared on the UNIX operating system.
Administrator/Superuser
accounts on UNIX systems are called root. "

Its quite common amongst linux users to think they are invulnerable.. so
they don't take much in the way of security precautions. This is made worse
because the majority of them are unable to tell if they have been rooted as
they have no tools to tell them and they don't understand what should be
running on their machine in the first place.


They will counter this argument by saying how many exploits exist for
windows.. this being the fools argument as we are not talking about how
secure windows is.