[Sheflug] Re: Linux Demo Days

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Stephen

"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:

> Very good-looking.
> 
> But....  The statement about viruses is disgenuous.  It's true that
> Wintel-based viruses don't work on Linux, but Linux viruses (actually,
> they work on any ELF platform) have been written (though none are
> known in the wild, AFAIK).  If a user is naive enough to not know what
> Linux is, they probably identify "virus" with "security problem", and
> Linux is _affected_ by many security problems.


err....  yeh,  this is on an SuSE web site and not ours.  So, it's a
bit obvious that I didn't write it ?

Thank you

-- 
Richard

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