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[doublejack]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dosraider @ Sep 7 2007, 07:14 PM) [snapback]309624[/snapback]</div>

This is my last post about this subject, I know it's no use discutting this matters.

Article dated:
Discovery Date 11/26/1998

It was an simple example doublejack, no need to analyse that article.

We are almost 10 years later now, do you really think the devs of such stuff have been sleeping all this time?
Do you even believe yourself that Ubu is invulnerable?
Get real will you?

FYI: in the past there have even been kernels released that were infected.
Do some research and learn a bit or you only will completely ridiculize yourself.

Over and out for me.
You may play the fool by yourself now.
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I'll let an expert do my talking

Security is, as we all know, a process, not a product. So when you use Linux, you're not using a perfectly safe OS. There is no such thing. But Linux and Mac OS X establish a more secure footing than Microsoft Windows, one that makes it far harder for viruses to take hold in the first place, but if one does take hold, harder to damage the system, but if one succeeds in damaging the system, harder to spread to other machines and repeat the process. When it comes to email-borne viruses and worms, Linux may not be completely immune - after all, nothing is immune to human gullibility and stupidity - but it is much more resistant. 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. I know which one I'll trust. How about you?[/b]

Scott Granneman is a senior consultant for Bryan Consulting Inc. in St. Louis. He specializes in Internet Services and developing Web applications for corporate, educational, and institutional clients.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/li...indows_viruses/

As one of millions and millions of regular people that are wired to the internet, I don't get anywhere near enough exposure to worry about a hacker taking an interest with my box. And all of the experts agree with me, at least the ones that aren't trying to sell protective software, if I'm not an idiot and infect my own box then I have nothing to worry about. I'll leave reading Catcher in the Rye and generating countless conspiracy theories of boogie-man hackers out to get me to those who are into that sort of thing.