<FONT face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size=2>-----kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org wrote: -----<br><div><font color="#990099"><br></font>>From: unsolicited <unsolicited@swiz.ca><br>><br>>I get irritated when it is claimed Linux is more secure than Windows <br>>because it doesn't get viruses. When we cannot possibly know that.<br>><br>>Particularly when the reality is, if Linux were as popular as<br>>Windows, <br>>it would be a much greater target than it is today, and get a <br>>correspondingly larger level of viruses (which are essentially bugs /<br>>security holes).<br><br>Compare it to neighbourhoods. Despite houses being generally alike in how they can be broken into, would you rather live in a neighbourhood that has a high rate of break-ins or lower rate?<br><br>I pick Linux. It has a lower rate of break-ins and I don't have to do very much to keep it that way.<br></div></FONT>