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Story: Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail

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Posted by: Chris Rankin (Saturday 11 December 2004, 2:12 PM)

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Virus writers could well start focussing more on GNU/Linux installations in the near future. However, the nice thing about GNU/Linux is that you can disable or completely uninstall anything that proves to be an incorrigible security risk... (*cough* I.E.)

So it sounds to me as if the age-old flame-war over whether or not GNU/Linux is inherently more secure than Windows is about to be settled, one way or the other.

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