A few days ago an article appeared on geekzone that described how the KDE and Gnome based linux desktop systems are vulnerable to virus and trojans. The point that jumped out was a statement by the blog author: “False sense of security is worse than no security”, and I’ve been guilty of having this false sense of security all along. By all along I mean whenever I was logged in to some Linux distro.
The article is titled: How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps
Linux is vulnerable to Viruses and Trojans
Its an interesting read, and one can only hope that everyone in the Linux community takes this as a serious flaw in their beloved OSs and helps out in addressing this issue whichever way they can.
[...] sense of security is worse than no security