| Some troubles that might happen with Linux and Mac |
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| Written by Boris Mutina (minor) | |||||
| Friday, 27 April 2007 | |||||
 Beware Linux and Mac users! Mac and open-source platform should no longer be so secure against viruses, PC Pro informed on Tuesday.As Mr. Eugene Kaspersky claimed, there will be a significant rise in virus attacks on these platforms. As reason sees Mr. Kaspersky, that with new Microsoft OS more users will move towards alternative platforms, making them a target for malware writers. "It's not so easy to find good anti-virus experts for non-Windows platforms" Mr. Kaspersky stated. Open source presents more serious problems: "More people are watching open-source code, so they are more quick to find problems. If the people who make the fix are good guys, that's great, if they are bad guys, that's a problem". Other platforms should be affected too - consoles and smartphones should be also target for attacks. Especially smartphones could be a target for phishing... Czech website Root.cz, one of most popular Linux-dedicated websites in Czech and Slovak republic posted good overviews on such aspects, which are to be not overseen when talking about viruses on Linux platforms. Petr Krcmar, chief editor of the Root.cz claims here: 1. If a user is running old vulnerable applications on MS Windows or Linux or Mac OS, an attacker could succeed to put his code into the user’s computer. 2. The number of Linux desktop users is not so high when compared to the number of MS Windows users. The situation is different in server area but, as Mr. Krcmar stated, we haven't seen massive attacks against these systems. 3. Linux users are in general more skilled than users of MS Windows. 4. Users on MS Windows are commonly working with administrator rights. 5. Flaws on open-source environment are patched generally within one day, instead of closed source. 6. Linux based systems can be updated as whole things including all installed applications, differently from MS Windows, where you patch the system and Microsoft applications like MS Office, but lot of other vendor's applications kept as “not patched”. 7. Linux environment is more heterogeneous - there is too many different linux distributions and this normally negative aspect is now turn to positive because compatibility between different distributions is sometimes questionable. Some of security holes from a certain distribution are not on different ones at all. These are most important factors which are affecting mass virus spreading. As Mr. Krcmar stated in the end, there is a possibility that this situation will change, even if at present there is no need to be too much concerned about it. But this doesn't mean we should not be careful.
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