“The GNU/Linux operating system and related open-source software applications are very good and significantly more secure than Windows, by default, because the operating system was designed with more of a focus on security than Windows. However, that doesn’t mean it can’t be broken, and thinking that it can’t (or that your systems are impenetrable) is a very dangerous mindset.”
Like with Apple’s claims of better security (which it does have), it’s not foolproof and I make the assertion that if 90% of the world’s computers were running Linux or Apple, there would still be viruses.
No, incorrect. It is inherently more secure because the operating system has permission levels that are NOT in Windows systems. Even if 90% were running it and there were viruses (which there are viruses for Unix-like OSes) they still would not be rampant as they are in Windows machine. What you and the others are failing to understand is that there a MILLIONS of *nix-based systems out there, in the government, in schools and in homes and golly, none of them in all these years have been taken out like Windows machines have.
Certainly, you get some that aren’t properly set up and get snatched out from under the owners because they didn’t set up the lockouts properly, didn’t prevent people from gaining access to the root password or they didn’t properly set their password (the most common password in the WORLD is “password”.... duh)...
My system is set up specifically to use for one thing. Browsing the internet and getting mail. Period. All processes and services not necessary are off. The machine is behind a firewall (hardware) that simply WILL NOT let you get to my machine or even if you got a malware on it, allow the malware out. Sorry, you can’t “break” it that way. I’m not “thinking” it can’t, I KNOW it can’t and I’ve dared some of the best to break in. They can’t... and we’ve got a lot of them right here where I work ;)
Anyway, the point is, this isn’t about ‘bragging’, it’s about being Security proactive on computer security and the REASON that people have fouled up windows machines in the FIRST PLACE isn’t anything to do with the OS, it has to do with the user of the system and their LACK of knowledge on computer security. If you know what you’re doing you can protect anything properly. If you don’t, you rely on BS software like the crap mentioned in this article.