![]() ![]() including ones who work for anti-virus companies. Businesspeople have expressed similar attitudes. Of course, it's not just "regular folks" on mailing lists who share this opinion. ![]() In response, another person named, oh, let's call him "Bill," says, basically, "How ridiculous! The only reason Microsoft software is the target of so many viruses is because it is so widely used! Why, if Linux or Mac OS X was as popular as Windows, there would be just as many viruses written for those platforms!" Someone on a mailing list or discussion forum complains about the latest in a long line of Microsoft email viruses or worms and recommends others consider Mac OS X or Linux as a somewhat safer computing platform. In fact, I've heard it a couple of times this week already. We've all heard it many times when a new Microsoft virus comes out. Opinion To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it, writes SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman.
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