The only reason spyware, or other malicious software is targeted at windows machines is because 99% of the computing world uses them unfortunately. I use mozilla but I test my webpages in IE because at least 95% of traffic is from IE/Windows users. As soon as Linux takes off expect malicious code to surface as well, what make you so certain Linux is that much more secure? Perhaps its open source nature makes it less secure, unfortunately its unpopularity does allow us to test this hypothesis?
I to have a comsci degree, and say this . . How on this earth are people that aren't trained in Information Technology going to install programs in Linux using the command line? I to this day have issues with command line compiling and installation procedures . . ? Never once has the windows setup.exe failed for me? Every platform has its issues, which is why I like to keep several computers with one or two OS's on them. Computers are so cheap now its easy to get the best of both windows and linux worlds.
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The only reason spyware, or other malicious software is targeted at windows machines is because 99% of the computing world uses them unfortunately. I use mozilla but I test my webpages in IE because at least 95% of traffic is from IE/Windows users. As soon as Linux takes off expect malicious code to surface as well, what make you so certain Linux is that much more secure? Perhaps its open source nature makes it less secure, unfortunately its unpopularity does allow us to test this hypothesis? I to have a comsci degree, and say this . . How on this earth are people that aren't trained in Information Technology going to install programs in Linux using the command line? I to this day have issues with command line compiling and installation procedures . . ? Never once has the windows setup.exe failed for me? Every platform has its issues, which is why I like to keep several computers with one or two OS's on them. Computers are so cheap now its easy to get the best of both windows and linux worlds.