And also much more difficult. Also, when the virus writer is aiming to create a botnet, like Storm, which is what I was alluding to, completely unneeded.
What about root kits for *NIX? You know as well as I do that probably 50% of the hosts on the internet need to be gone through with a steam cleaner. Let's not kid ourselves and think that Linux, commerical UNIX, or BSD is unhackable. You'd either be a complete idiot, naive, or a fanboy. Or some combination.
Apple sells tons of OS X boxes. Good for them. However, when I look at web site stat logs, Mac OS is a very small portion of my hits compared to Windows. That is what virus authors usually see as well. Again, there just isn't enough of them, and wasn't, until recently.
Virus free on a Mac for 15 years? Reasons are multiple. Two of them are that, 1. until recently, as I said, no one (as in Bad People) cared about them. Not enough. Secondly, give me a break. MAC OS ONLY GOT PROTECTED MEMORY WITH OS X. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You really think it'd be a chore to write a virus for an OS WITHOUT PROTECTED MEMORY?????????
OpenVMS has never had a virus written for it. Or MULTICS. Or Plan9. Or blah blah blah. An OpenVMS server was placed on the net with the intention of people trying to hack it. No one did it.
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Originally Posted by id10t
Strange, many (most) servers on the web are running Linux or BSD (or commercial unix) and I think a high-bandwidth server would be much more desireable to "own" than a desktop machine on someones DSL or cable line... but there have only been 3 or 4 Linux viruses in the wild...
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