Linux Does Have A Virus!

Thanx, now i know why i have never tried linux again. TATA.

It affects mainly Linux users downloading precompiled binaries. I'm surfing Gentoo Linux, and I have compiled myself quite all my softwares : the risk is very low, as a "virus designer" will not spread it in source code. Use a serious Linux !

Much of the assumption that Linux is immune to virus attacks is based on the fact that Linux users do not normally have such problems. This is not because it is better protected, but a simple mathematical fact there are far more people using Windows and therefore people writing viruses aim at Windows in order to have a greater effect. As the use of Linux increases, so does the temptation for these people to create viruses to attack the system.

Thanks for sharing this information. I have been using Kubuntu for the last 9 months or so as my only operating system and I am loving it! No more hassles with browsers freezing and time consuming security updates like I used to have with Windows. I was however under the impression that I was safe at this point it time from viruses. That is what my Linux using friend in IT told me anyway. There is virus protection that you can install for Kubuntu. It is called KlamAV. I installed it anyway but have not really used it yet. I think I will give it a go now. I just ran a quick scan, (a lot quicker than Windows and it found no problems!)

Compare to microsoft windows XXX , i think linux much less virus.....

its shows linux is grooming. 90% of the people use windows because of that developers concentrated only windows now things changes due to failure of vista lot of them move to linux base os so obivously developers move to linux

I agree that even I was under impression that viruses can not affect Linux system, so I would not any anti-virus. Now I will look for an antivirus for linux system. The article is nice one. But still I think though Linux is less vulnerable than Windows, but point is it is still Vulnerable.

yes this means that thes os start becoming popular!!so normally people can say linux os can't take some infections is bcause normally malaware,viruses or other malicious things were written usually for the most used os on the market as windows...so now even mac os can take some infections deriving from some malawares but they still say we can't take viruses...so this can be common even for linux os based..

Well, it does make sense that there would start to be malicious coders that are going to look into writing viruses for the alternative operating systems because we have reached a certain crossroads in the use of computers where there is not nearly the monopoly of windows based operating systems that there has been in the past. I can only hope that just as quickly as these criminals are able to write programs that will harm our computers, there will be people that are able to protect our computers from this harm.

I really dont know why a lot of people are trying to make viruses which are no good to other people. A friend told me once that some viruses are made by the companies of anti virus programs. They make viruses so that their anti virus would sell. True or not? I'll leave that to you..

Yeah, that is what every Mac OS and Linux user should know. Even I thought once that Macs had no viruses. Now I feel stupid about it. I am glad that Macs don't have as many viruses as what Windows have, but it's still a bit stupid. Why do people make viruses? Are the virus protection companies making viruses? There are a lot of discussions about this, and my personal information is that virus makers should go to hell!!! P.S. Did you know that Linux was made/started by a guy named Linus? He uses a Mac computer with his OS because he thinks/knows that the OS works better on a Mac than a PC. An other interesting thing about him is that he is Finnish (at least born in Finland) and me too I am

o really wow, well im using vista so i will never try the linux but i would like the MAC OS

wow.. that's a bad news for open sourcer.... so sad, but it's ok as long as we create the fixes for it

really its that true? from now on linux having a virus? my professors we recommend to use linux because it never have a virus. for now i dont like linux.

Wow!Great!I love the article.At least we the windows user can relax and exert a breath of relief for some time because the virus generator are now busy with Linux and MAC os. Thanks for the information, Happy MyLotting!!