On 06/07/13 04:12, Dale wrote: > > I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is > getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a > used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie > guy there had a interesting statement that makes me think I'm not > recommending them for computer service to anyone else. While we was > chatting, he said that Linux is just as prone to getting a virus as > windoze and so is a Mac. I think my laughing let him know I wasn't > buying his comment. > > I since did some googling and it seems I am right and he just thought I > was some know nothing guy he could sell some service too. Anyway, has > anything changed to make Linux more prone to viruses than it used to > be? I read a percentage somewhere that said like 99% of viruses are > windoze only. Is there a indisputable source of information on this? > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
food for thought - some years back a member of the local lug picked up that something was listening on a port that he didn't think should be in use. Turned out to be an infected windows binary running under wine ... I presume he had been using wine and this was left running, rather than self starting. BillK
