Linux and the sheer utter misery of viruses

“Of course the Linux servers and the Mac/Linux desktops are
immune to Windows viruses so one might hope that if a virus gets
into the Windows machines, whether because of a less than perfect
virus checker or security update policy, it would only serve to
make the point about the vulnerability of Windows workstations.

“Not a bit of it. Every sys-admin of a mixed-environment system
knows that infected Windows workstations take the whole network
down, whether through broadcast storms, weird network look ups or
overwhelmed firewalls.”

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