You can accuse Microsoft of many things but you can never accuse the company of being short on chutzpah.
Read more »The best way to fight viruses? stop using Windows
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There's an antivirus called ubuntu
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A friend of mine heard of a program that will make you never get viruses again. Its called Ubuntu. I go to the site and download the program, but it wont install.
Read more »Now Linux Can Get Viruses Via Wine
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I forget who, but some wiseguy stuck a link to site (not linkified so Google doesn't mark me as evil) on his Facebook wall, which reminded me of one reason I love Firefox (and Linux): security.
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Viruses on Linux - Look out?
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Explaining to a father how there are no viruses for Linux.
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Follow up: How to write a Linux virus
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Yesterday I published an article about How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps. There has been quite an overwhelming response for this. Within just a few hours this article became my most visited blog post ever. Wow! Just goes to show that either the article hit a real nerve, or the other articles on my blog are just really boring. :-)
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Virus : A paralysed object on GNU/Linux
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Recently I faced two incidents when I had to format my flash drive as it would simply refuse to open at all just because it was infected with some nasty viruses from my office computers.
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Debunking the Linux virus myth
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Linux and UNIX-like operating systems in general are regarded as being more secure for the common user, in contrast with operating systems that have "Windows" as part of their name. Why is that?
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Malware on GNU/Linux
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GNU/Linux users should not have any false sense of security just based on the fact that viruses designed for exclusively for windows won't run on GNU/Linux. Here is a list of "Linux computer viruses"
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Malicious code inserted into Wikipedia pages spreads computer virus
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"In an exclusive report, Wikinews has learned that on Wednesday, January 16, 2008, two users, one anonymous and the other only known as MODX added code onto Wikipedia for a computer virus known as the LoveLetter virus or the ILOVEYOU virus..."
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Can we afford not to give our kids Linux?
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For any parent, myself included, setting your kids loose on the net is a daunting prospect. We have to do it because the net is a fact of life - it's in our schools, the workplace, public libraries and in many if not most homes of the developed world. Therefore, do we really have any option but to give them Linux?
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Why Linux is better than windows for virus outbreaks.
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The age old "discussions" that float around the internet in regards to Linux and windows security are contentious ones. It all seems to boil down to Linux people saying that Linux is more secure and windows people saying that it is not. In this case the windows guys are right, with exceptions.
Read more »The end of Windows, or a security expert gives up
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Security expert Bruce Schneier today wrote about the “Storm Worm” again. Go and read it and become very afraid if you are running the Windows operating system. Become even more afraid if you are responsible for a bunch of them, like in a company. And then get a clue and morph them all into something better, like installing any of the Linux/Unix/BSD variants.
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Why Windows Users Are Insane
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If you read my last post, you know that - temporarily - I'm hosting Windows XP on one of the four computers plugged in here at the igloo, due to a donated computer. This post marks the 72 hour mark since I once again saw the Windows splash screen on a monitor in my home for the first time in seven years.
Read more »My first Linux virus?
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Wandering around my Linux filesystem I found a weird directory in /home …Ok, I thought, I didn’t create that. If it’s a virus, it’s the most stupid virus in existence, but, we never know… Then I got inside and see what files it had, and found this
Read more »Protect Your Linux Box from Viruses
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There's a ridiculous rumor running around the net that Linux is so inherently secure -- or so securely obscure -- that you shouldn't even bother running an antivirus on it. But frankly, that's just not true.
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