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Subject: Re: Off-topic: The Big One?

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 04:53:44 05/05/00

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On May 05, 2000 at 00:22:19, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

[...]

>The executable did not start automatically -- user had to manually run it. I
>beleive that there are 2 factors why there are no such viruses on *nux:

>(1) It's much less widespread than Windows (I am not talking about server
>environment/universities).
>(2) Average user knows that's it not a good isea to start unknown executable.

(3) The virus programmer knows that if the user will execute his program he can
destroy the files of this user but it's rather hard to write a virus which will
ruin the whole system.

Best wishes,
Steffen.



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