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<blockquote data-quote="flonejek" data-source="post: 60597"><p>Don't forget that the majority of viruses for windows are due to the flawed implementation of Internet Explorr, literally allowing anyone with your IP address to run malicious code on your wintel box, whereas on macs and linux the browser is separate from the OS, meaning any malicious code run (which is pretty much limited to javascript, activeX isn't available for either except mac IE) can't access system functions to spread itself/add itself to registry and other horrible things.</p><p></p><p>This means that if the *nix based systems (mac OSX, Linux, Unix and a few others) become the most popular in the marketplace, even if people wanted to write viruses for the platform, they couldn't do the following:</p><p></p><p>A: spread autmatically like a worm</p><p>B: start when your computer stars</p><p>C: Infect your computer (unless you ran the virus application)</p><p></p><p>so you pretty much will never need a virus scanner for any of the *nixes, unless you're like a windows mailserver (to catch crap in the mail)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flonejek, post: 60597"] Don't forget that the majority of viruses for windows are due to the flawed implementation of Internet Explorr, literally allowing anyone with your IP address to run malicious code on your wintel box, whereas on macs and linux the browser is separate from the OS, meaning any malicious code run (which is pretty much limited to javascript, activeX isn't available for either except mac IE) can't access system functions to spread itself/add itself to registry and other horrible things. This means that if the *nix based systems (mac OSX, Linux, Unix and a few others) become the most popular in the marketplace, even if people wanted to write viruses for the platform, they couldn't do the following: A: spread autmatically like a worm B: start when your computer stars C: Infect your computer (unless you ran the virus application) so you pretty much will never need a virus scanner for any of the *nixes, unless you're like a windows mailserver (to catch crap in the mail) [/QUOTE]
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