Want to feel secured ??
Last night I received an email from a friend saying “do not open an attachment from some named ##### as the attachement will crash hd , and its a hd eater ..and so on.. blah blah”…..
I told him that my system is ok and will not be affected by these viruses as I am using a GNU/Linux box and most of these viruses are written to affect Windows and their filesystems.
So the obvious question is: are there any viruses to affect Linux?
there are some but their affect is fairly easy to resist and one of the main reasons is due to the user-level permission restrictions which do not allow all users to perform all task.
Read more at : http://librenix.com/?inode=21
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