Thanks to Linux and the Ubuntu team

[casperl]

The following appeared on BBC News today:

(Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4259554.stm )

THREAT STATISTICS
48% increase in Windows viruses in six months
74% of the top 50 malicious code samples steals confidential information
80% of the top ten adware programs install themselves via browsers
50% of top ten adware programs hijack browsers
61% of all e-mail is spam
51% of all spam originates in the US

I am on the internet all day, everyday and all this has totally missed me!

Heartfelt thanks to the Ubuntu team that brought Linux to the level where I could use it for all my work and avoid the above nightmares entirely!

[JacX]

It's great not being effected by this rubbish isn't it!!

There's an interesting article in this months Linux Format mag about security that does raise an interesting point......... Would the situation regarding the number of virus's in the wild targeting windows be as high if the Windows and Linux position was reversed. i.e. if linux was (as it should be) the prodominate OS would we be sufferring like the poor winslow bods??

My personal viw would be not ......... Although a number of issue's remain in the kernal these have been drematically reduced in the last six months. I think that virus writers would have a harder time if the tables where turned.

[Kuolio]

Well, linux is so much more secure on every level i can think off, that even if the "market shares table" was turned around, I don't see it likely that linux would have this much trouble as windows nowadays has. Sure, we would have some linux viruses, but they would be harder to code (than for windows) and propably would be easy to cure by updatig the necessary/infected service files and security holes..

oh, but we have that already don't we, the easy and quite fast security updating that fixes viral/security problems on the OS level, and no need for 3rd party programs to cure our systems ..?.. Just my thoughts..

[Knome_fan]

Alan Cox' take on computer security today:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/09/12/alan-cox.html

Worth the read, I think.