From: "Andrew Jones" <luminous-is AT home DOT com>
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Subject: Re: real mode & protected mode (fwd)
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> What virus does work on Linux or any other protected OS?  Is that why
> there has never been an antivirus product for BSD, UNIX, or GNU?

Windows is a protected OS <cough>, yet there's an abundance of virii that will
do strange and horrible things to it.
Linux (and other derivatives of the big U) are just a lot more secure, what
with user level privileges and a whole load of other stuff that I can't even
bluff any knowledge of without looking like a (bigger?) idiot. =)

AndrewJ