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Originally Posted by Emerson
Nope. Lots of people not very familiar with computers think virus is something that comes and gets you, as you get flu. Not true for computers, to write a successful virus you need to exploit a vulnerability in target system. No security holes = no viruses.
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Linux has a lot of vulnerabilities. Bug trackers a HUGE. And we don't seem to ever get a "Linux virus". If there are about
17,702,868 known viruses for Windows, does it mean Windows has about 17 million times more vulnerabilities than Linux or even more? I don't think so.