User:Lebreton/Security

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Security

• "The Internet? We are not interested in that" Bill Gates, 1993
• Windows is a system designed to enable one single user to perform tasks (Personal Computer). Nowdays everyone uses the Internet, which is a network, something Windows clearly was not designed for.
• Linux was basically designed to be a multiuser and multi-tasking network environment.

Virusses

• There are very few known Linux virusses, but beware of the false sense of security.
• The Linux concept (working as a user with restricted rights and access) and the diversity of Linux distributions make it

a difficult task to create a virus that has a chance to survive.

Spyware

• Spyware and key-loggers are designed to run on a Win32 platform. They just don't work in Linux.

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