TechRepublic - IT Security: The truth about viruses

September 12th, 2007
By Chad Perrin

Once every couple months or so, I find myself explaining to someone that the flood of viruses everyone has come to expect is not an unavoidable side effect of an increasingly networked world. Usually this comes up in response to the all-too-common security through obscurity argument that Linux systems would suffer the same frequency of virus problems as Microsoft Windows if they were as popular as Windows is now. Such a comment ignores several factors that make up the vulnerability profile of Windows with regard to viruses.

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