In this excellent article, foobar basically states that there is no 100% secure OS (contrary to what Mac users like to pretend) and goes on to prove the vulnerabilities in the Gnome/KDE Linux desktops.
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| I will show how it is possible in a few easy steps to write a perfectly valid email borne virus for modern desktop Linux. I will do so not because I want to put down Linux. Quite the opposite: I like and support Linux, which is all I’m running at home and at work. I’m a big supporter of free and open software as readers of this blog will know. But if there are any security risks, even in my favorite OS or distribution then they will need to be discussed. Even more important: A false sense of security is worse than a lack of security. And unsubstantiated claims of superiority don’t help in a reasonable discussion either. |
At the bottom of the piece, foobar offers sound defensive advice for any OS.
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| The easiest solution to prevent this kind of problem is to not just blindly click on attachments that people have sent you. Does that sound like a sentence you have always heard in the context of Windows before? You bet. The point is: Even on Linux this advice should be taken serious. |
(Note for Mac users: Many elements of OS X and Linux derive from similar UNIX kernels.)