Let's be realistic. The article that's linked here is written by somebody who has never used Outlook, and also obviousally doesn't "live" in their mail client. I purchased a copy of VMware just (almost) so that I could have access to MS Outlook for email. I've tried about 50 different *nix mail clients, and none of them stack up for easy of use or configurability. As for *nix being immune, the virus was written explicitly for Windows. It's is only a matter of time before such things migrate to *nix, but *nix has to not suck as a desktop OS before that's a possibility. By this time next year we'll be starting to see worms that are written for *nix, because by then it should be useable as a desktop OS that can actually compete with Windows. Be realistic, it's not there yet.
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Let's be realistic. The article that's linked here is written by somebody who has never used Outlook, and also obviousally doesn't "live" in their mail client. I purchased a copy of VMware just (almost) so that I could have access to MS Outlook for email. I've tried about 50 different *nix mail clients, and none of them stack up for easy of use or configurability. As for *nix being immune, the virus was written explicitly for Windows. It's is only a matter of time before such things migrate to *nix, but *nix has to not suck as a desktop OS before that's a possibility. By this time next year we'll be starting to see worms that are written for *nix, because by then it should be useable as a desktop OS that can actually compete with Windows. Be realistic, it's not there yet.