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How to make an OS virus-free? It's quite simple actually, make it so difficult and/or useless that it will have no user base whatsoever. Windows has so many v
by EvanK 17y ago
How to make an OS virus-free? It's quite simple actually, make it so difficult and/or useless that it will have no user base whatsoever.
Windows has so many viruses because it's the most popular OS in the world (not the best imho, but that's for another flamewar). Mac OS used to be mostly virus-free until it started rapidly gaining in popularity. Linux as well, though the technical prowess of Linux users is generally MUCH higher so it may just be that potential Linux viruses don't spread as much.
- radu_floricica 17y agoThis is a good point not mentioned yet. The number of viruses targeted to an OS is directly proportional to the market share it has. As long as it stays in single digits any "economically rational" virus maker will write yet another windows virus instead of working on an unfamiliar platform. Whether it will be technically more difficult to write a virus on linux, max of chrome os, we will only know for sure when/if they become a target tempting enough.