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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:47:08 +0200
From:      Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>
To:        'zxu' <zxu@sript.com.cn>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Requiry
Message-ID:  <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179669@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	zxu [SMTP:zxu@sript.com.cn]
> Sent:	Monday, June 14, 1999 7:25 AM
> To:	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	Requiry
> 
> Gentleman,
> There are so many virus fo Windows, what's about FreeBSD, Linux and
> other
> UNIX operation systems?
	[ML]  Well, there have been some attempts, but unices run on
very different hardware so that a binary virus has problems to spread on
a different architecture, and usually sensible users do not run with
superuser privileges so that the virii have problems spreading since a
normal mortal cannot alter a system binary.

	Furthermore, there seems to be a maturity of the users in play,
as well: the people knowledgeable enough to write a virus which would
have a chance to spread among unix machines are usually no longer
infantile enough to actually write one :)  Shall we say, they find other
things (kernel hacking comes to mind) more challenging than a mere
virus.

	/Marino

> Sincerely,
> huining zhang
> June 14,1999
> 
> 
> 
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