That's a matter of opinion... Well, MS stinks, but from an electrical
engineer's point of view, it's a whole lot easier to build hardware for a
DOS box, as I can write software that talks directly to the drivers.
Granted, I can't do that anymore with the Win98/2k/NT... That's why I still
have a couple of DOS boxes around - for testing hardware.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adlar Kim [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Linux and viruses
>
> That's why M$ win stinks...
>
>
> >From: Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: RedHat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: Linux and viruses
> >Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:04:27 -0500 (EST)
> >
> >Because the bulk of virii were either written for DOS, written to infect
> >DOS/Windows executables, or are written in Microsoft's visual basic
> >scripting language.
> >
> >Linux's memory model doesn't really allow for the DOS boot sector or
> >executable virii, because in most cases they require access to the
> >innermost areas of memory, and the OS doesn't allow it. On the other
> side
> >of the coin, Linux doesn't execute VBS, so you don't get smacked with
> >that.
> >
> >On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Hi to all
> > > can anybody explain me, even in a few words, why is Linux so robust
> > > against viruses ??
> > > Is there an intrinsic robustness ???
> > >
> > > I'm a Linux newbye, and I just heard of a "Ramen" virus or something
> > > similar, but nothing else....
> > > if I think to the tons of Windows-viruses....
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > >
> > >
> > >
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