"Huge" wrote in message
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"nightjar" writes:

"Tony Hogarty" wrote in message
newsan.2004.12.16.17.08.29.773277@tjhpropertyga rbage.co.uk...
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No unfortunately you are very wrong in your assumption. There have
been
attempts to write viruses for *nix sysytems previously and fortunately
they come to nothing because they can carry no useful payload and more
importantly they cannot propogate. Read this article for a fuller
description of the differences
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/188

Essentially, that says that the main differences are that there are too
many
different programmes out there for one virus to be a problem for everyone
and that Linux does not do some of the things that have proved to cause
problems with Windows.

Err, isn't that part of the point?

However, I would need a lot more convincing
that it could withstand the sort of highly organised, well funded attacks
that MS products are subjected to.

Be convinced. It will, it can, and it does.

Oh come on, take off the rose tinted specticles. There are numerous holes
in Unix which every university comp grad knows about. The problem is unless
you can get access to the systems it isn't worth the hassle of writing a
virus or whatever for them.