Comments on: Linux isn’t affected by Viruses

By: Anshu Makkar

Anshu Makkar — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:27:03 +0000

Linux is not affected by its hierarchical file system.
To enter in any directory some permissions. Even if virus reach into one directory its very hard to reach another same level directories and its nearly impossible to reach to root directory(/)(ofcourse without root privilege).
Anshu Makkar
SKIT Jaipur

By: try senghay

try senghay — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:31:43 +0000

linux more flexible with file system
that the virus can not attack using the same code or structure.

By: puneet gupta

puneet gupta — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:18:49 +0000

linux is not affected because of it’s key feature source code. As source code is given we can modify each and everything as we want which is not known to virus source.
Puneet Gupta
JECRC, Jaipur

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Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:45:48 +0000

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