Thread: How to make your computer virus free

If I only had a quarter for every M$ vs. linux thread I ran across...

It's not necessarily a MS vs Linux issue.

Windows is going to be a target for viruses due to Win32 being the industry standard, Siemens which makes a good portion of industry hardware/software uses Win32 in all it's systems.

Linux due to it's varying degrees and flavors of distros isn't a prime candidate for a virus because each distro has a varying framework and do to that would never be an industry standard OS. That means the virus could only attack Linux distros with that particular framework and a company using Linux would have to have Win32 as a co-existing OS because it is the industry standard and in order to do business it is a requirement.

Linux's primary use in any industry is either use for cluster computing or smaller internal networks companies use for inventory or housing keeps purposes that a client wouldn't have to interface with.

It also has a use as a security redundancy probe, which is what Backtrack is designed for.