Security → Re: How often do you do full scan your computer(s) for malwares?

How do you do that, while running Linux? Oh yeah, you don't have to.

Then you should pray that Linux doesn't ever really catch on, otherwise it will be a target just like Windows.

There is ClamAV and such for those running Linux servers that play host to Windows systems.

Only if you are hosting files, or running a email server. Always have Windows systems running their own client A/V scanning software. Never trust just using Clam alone.

Majority of the Windows systems that are infected is by user stupidity (ie clicking on what ever pops up, opening emails from every email server sent to their mailbox). A user watching what they are doing, using layered protection (FF running adblock, warning about javascripting, not allowing opening of USB drives, CD's/DVD's, etc). Only way that I have infected a Windows system was by letting it get infected, and that was an experiment.

I have to admit, whenever I see a comment like this I wish that I had the skill to craft something that would take down a linux system because I would definitely take the comment as a challenge to do so.

I think, though, that someday someone with the skills will do so, and then the shoe will be on the other foot.

Would be kind of hard without having direct contact with the machine to enable Admin rights. Only way that a Linux system could possibly be taken down, is by having the user intervene and allow the engineered attack take place on the machine.

At least with a Linux or Unix based machine, it takes the user to take down, not someone attacking from the outside.