I??™ll try as best I can (with my own admitted bias toward Linux)
to present facts to address beliefs about Linux and to combat some of the unrealistic fear, uncertainty,
and doubt (FUD) being spread by those with a vested interest in seeing Linux not succeed.
Can You Stop Worrying About Viruses?
Well, you can (and should) always worry about the security of any computer connected to the
Internet. At the moment, however, you are probably less likely to get a virus from infected e-mail
or untrusted Web sites with standard e-mail clients and Web browsers that come with Linux systems
than you would with those that come with the average Microsoft Windows system.
The most commonly cited warnings to back up that statement come in a report from the United
States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) regarding a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet
Explorer (www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878):
There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE
domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination,
and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different
Web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites. Such a decision may, however,
reduce the functionality of sites that require IE-specific features such as DHTML,
VBScript, and ActiveX.
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