Linux on the desktop security: This is a process and architecture

Linux is indeed more reliable than Windows? It is clear that after this article, but the reasons have less to do with “a thousand eyes” and much more to do with “intelligent design”.

There are many reasons why Linux PC from malicious software secure than Windows PC. The most obvious is how the user interacts with the operating system ….

– Virus Linux is doomed since the beginning of conception and there are rough jungle. For ELF binary file to be infected with the virus, the worm is the first to write access to other programs. Previously, it must somehow hide. Binary-only applications are so rare in the world Linux, that not all software in general, the company develops. After a day in the desert, somebody will find a binary file hides something else and the element of surprise se ha Ido. We are used to be a source available. Try to hide malicious code or simply ….

Windows users have become accustomed to constantly running applications with administrative rights. First Cree mind that the Windows XP machine in most cases the only time that you, and you have administrative rights. It’s easy for the virus or worm spread to all people with open doors ….

Obviously, the developers of Microsoft, at least This is a smart, too? That fundamental design decision that really is not much to do with Linux developers gods security and safety is the developer of Windows clowns, at least in relation to an administrator. To its credit, Microsoft has changed this view but that of other design decisions, articles?

All security experts want independence? I certainly do not ….

adapted from http://news.cnet.com/