Posted by Josh Harmon on April 28, 1999 at 10:48:38:
In Reply to: Best Solution for Viruses posted by Curt Wuollet on April 28, 1999 at 00:30:50:
I don't think that your assumption is fair. Win95 and Win98 have virus problems because they are the most popular operating system on the market. If Linux ever gains the popularity that Windows has I suspect it will have it's fair share of viruses as well.
WordPerfect has (had at least, I haven't been in it for a while) a very powerful macro language, but you never hear of WP macro viruses because the impact would be so small no one uses their time writing them. I would think the same would be true of Linux. Besides the fact that linux users are so savy with their OS as opposed to 98% of America that get confused between a 5.25 floppy disk, 3.5 disk and hard drive (3.5 disks are hard aren't they?).
There's no need to proselytize as people are struggling to recover from a "disaster."
josh