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You can send me file attachments from now until the end of time, and not a *single* one of them will *ever* execute on my Linux boxen. Ever. Linux simply *does not work that way*.

I don't run AV tools in Linux for a very simple reason: I don't need to. Mail attachments do not execute. Period. Emails with active content do not execute. Period. The really unsafe web content, notably ActiveX controls do not execute. Period. The somewhat risky web content, such as scripting, is readily controlled. Word processor and other documents don't automagically spawn active code. Users don't run as administrators, as a rule. Getting a program to run, which wasn't delivered by a proper install package, is not terribly difficult, but isn't going to be easy enough to make it useful for a virus.

"just like any OS" is a load of crap. Linux doesn't do this. Unix doesn't. OSX, as far as I'm aware, doesn't. It is *Windows* that acts like a $2 whore, screaming far and wide "I'll open up for anybody".

So? I'm talking about machines that have current and up to date AV, anti-spyware and other tools... yet still get infected. You cannot eliminate the risk caused by a poor design simply by running such tools; at most you can reduce the risk somewhat. The correct approach is to fix the design.

Registry cleaners. Broken registry. Slowdowns. AV tools, yet still getting viruses. Antispyware apps, but still getting spyware.

Sorry, wasn't it you making noises about this crap being "easy to use"? Hell, even when it *is* protected, it *still* gets hosed.

Thankfully, in Linux, nether AV nor AntiSpyware are needed, and since there is no registry, you don't need cleaner and fixer tools, either. You just use it. Easy. Hmm, whaddaya know, that makes it easy to use. Certainly easier than that other crap that needs constant handholding and still gets munged on a regular basis.