Posted 07/26/2007 at 03:02:25pm

Reality is deceitful. There's a ridiculous rumor running around the net that Linux is as inherently insecure as Windows and that you should even bother running an antivirus on it. Show me a link to a respectable source, where you can find info on a virus already on the wild affecting Linux users. C'mon, I dare you. If there were at least one, it already would have hit hard those millions of Linux users who already surf the web, confidently, without antivirus programs. Heck, some don't even bother running a firewall. Antivirus applications exist on Linux *just so you can scan windows documents and/or partitions*. So yes, it's a polite gesture to our friends using Windows, to scan something we might send their way. Don't judge other OSes as you do Windows. Like John Ziegler says, it's like comparing apples to elephants. From a regular MPC reader, WS