[HairOfTheDog]

Somebody needs to write a Linux patch so that my operating system is no longer virus-deficient!

Keep eggin' them on... they'll get to all ya Linux folk soon enough ;~D

[Ramius]

Sshhhh... there is balance in all things. I like listening to cocky mac and *nix folk. No habits of update and patch. No antivirus running on nearly any system.

Someday... the same worm will take 'em all down at once, and we can be there to lick the delicious tears of sadness. /cartman. :-)

[AFPhys]

I dunno... they have a really long way to go.

Most of the time, I can't even get the virus/spyware detectors to even cooperate with my browser/Linux combination to let me know if I have a problem.

Linux variants may not be completely bullet proof, but they are so superior to Windows variants in the way networked information is handled that it almost requires personal keyboard access with supervisor privileges to infect a machine. Post#8 above that describes failed attempts to infect LINUX machine by running various viruses on WINE (the WINdows Emulator available on most LINUX distributions) --- that is, giving the virus advantages that it does not naturally have in LINUX to begin with --- are pretty indicative of the difficulty.