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| Originally Posted by Fathoms Down <rant mode>
Sorry, I really have to pint out that although you can't get viruses as such on Linux you can get all kinds of other wonders such as logic bombs, worms, trojans, etc. It is actually the least secure of all the Unix variants so to run it an assume that you're safe is very foolish.
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In fairness, one of the major issues is that MS operating systems are easy to attack because MS were very slow to realise that the internet was a good idea (Bills words not mine) whereas Unix and it's derivitives are accessed regularly via telnet, ftp... and therefore have a far better model for remote access.
Linux is not perfect but it is far better (security wise) than MS operating systems.
A great number of insecurities are actually problems with the applications running on the operating systems, e.g. web sites that allow session hijacking etc. or the recent PHP issue with some forums. In these situations it is not any operating system that is to blame.
My major issue anyway is not one of operating system, it's simply browser (as this thread started out on this issue) and without doubt firefox is more secure (again this is the issue at hand, not memory issues) than IE.