Re: [Ilugc] query about virus attack on UNIX / LINUX environment

[Immanuel]

Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
>> I hear that Windows has a backdoor hole which is a cause of all the
>> problems.
>> Can you expatiate it technically and why Win doesnt plug it? What is the
>> fundamental premise which makes Linux/Unix not-virus-friendly?
>>     
> Why Windows doesn't plug it? I am not the right person to answer that.
>
> Microsoft couldn't care less.
>   
It is simple. M$ has created a ecosystem around its windozzz...
Organizations like Mac-coffee, Cymentec survive on the ecosystem. If M$
has to fix it they are in trouble with the ecosystem. In other words...
M$ gets the max of the market pie and the rest get what M$ wouldn;t care
about.
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