viruses not attack open source operating system eg: Linux is it true or false?

6 Comments

1. Colanth says:

   22. February 2010 at 10:03

   To answer the actual question, any virus written to attack Linux will attack Linux, so false. But a virus can’t attack any operating system other than the one it was written to run on.
2. neil says:

   22. February 2010 at 10:03

   pretty much yes. that’s cuz no one makes a virus for linux since there aren’t as many linux users as there are pc users.
3. John C says:

   22. February 2010 at 10:03

   Virus writer go after the larger group of popular computers, such as Windows based, to get maximum effect. They are written for the operating system, and are not interchangeable!
4. rich says:

   22. February 2010 at 10:03

   you are safer using linux and the likes, mainly because there aren’t enough typical users to make writing virii for them worth it.
   but there is also the consideration that the linux community updates and hardens security threats constantly for not only the OS< but for all apps and libraries as well.
   and lastly, the typical linux user is savvy enough that these things get hosed before they ever really make it very far.

   but if linux were to become as popular as windows, you can be certain that it will have the same problems.
5. Ron M says:

   22. February 2010 at 10:03

   Yes and no. Those operating systems that are not in wide spread use tend not to get attacked. The two most attacked operating are, Windows and OS X. On the false side, any computer, no matter what it’s operating system, if connected to the web, can be attacked.
6. Sattamander says:

   22. February 2010 at 10:03

   In Open systems can be hacked and hit, that’s pretty much the meaning of open. But virus "programmers" like attention and they won’t get much writing viruses for Linux systems. Note: Mac’s don’t have a lot of troubles because Steve Jobs has a closed system, ie, he did not share his source code.