Debunked: Linux OSs and Viruses
There’s seems to be a lot of confusion regarding viruses, the security of Unix based OSs, even in more tech savvy groups. So, what’s the deal with viruses and Linux?
“Linux doesn’t have viruses at all!”
Most of the time this is just a case of over simplification made by ‘Linux people’ in order to convince Windows people to try Linux.
The truth is that there are about 30 viruses for Linux. I know this number sounds extremely large, but bear with me.
The trick is that there aren’t any viruses in circulation – that can currently infect systems and are present on USB sticks, malicious servers, etc. In fact, I think most of those viruses are gathering dust somewhere on a floppy disk.
How come there are so few viruses for Linux? Linux is radically different from Windows because:
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