Re: [LAD] Linux Malware

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From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...>

To: Linux Audio Developers <linux-audio-dev@...>

Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 3:33 pm

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Louigi Verona wrote:

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> Hey guys!
>
> This is an Offtopic question, really, but I wanted to ask people I know and
> people who are developers - what are the reasons there are (almost) no
> viruses on Linux?

Technically I could be wrong, but ... Lots of viruses come via mail.
On Linux it means executing binary files from mail clients. Well,

1) mail clients on Linux don't do that
2) the executable attribute of a file is lost when you send it anyway.

Alexandre Prokoudine
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[LAD] Linux Malware, Louigi Verona, (Thu Mar 22, 3:17 pm)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Gordon JC Pearc e, (Sun Mar 25, 9:06 am)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, David Robillard, (Sat Mar 24, 12:15 am)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Gabriel M. Beddingfield, (Sat Mar 24, 11:24 pm)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Paul Davis, (Sat Mar 24, 12:38 am)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Gordon JC Pearc e, (Fri Mar 23, 8:52 pm)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Jostein Chr. Andersen, (Fri Mar 23, 8:15 pm)

[LAD] [OT]: Re: Linux Malware, Lorenzo Sutton, (Fri Mar 23, 9:55 am)

Re: [LAD] [OT]: Re: Linux Malware, Louigi Verona, (Fri Mar 23, 11:12 am)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Emanuel Rumpf, (Thu Mar 22, 4:43 pm)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Luis Garrido, (Thu Mar 22, 3:51 pm)

Re: [LAD] Linux Malware, Alexandre Prokoudine, (Thu Mar 22, 3:33 pm)