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Ah, it is mr accurate in theory, sucks in practical. Let us address just the first of mr. long winded. He is the biggest flapping lips, never done it, there is...
Ralph has brought this to us :
I realize it's difficult for you to grasp, but it is not terribly difficult to modify a message to appear to come from pretty much anywhere - including the box running the mailer.
I was upstairs in the office working on the servers when I hear a ruckus on the monitor from downstairs. Some know-it-all Wintard was arguing with one of my...
You also, however, conveniently ignore the other part of that, to wit, the system being used by a particularly clueless user. He gets a message with an attachment and merrily sends you a copy, what happens? It's coming from him, to you. From the Linux box. Yet it has a virus.
Golly gee. Two separate cases where you get the mail. Where do you get it from? Oh, right, the Linux box.
This, of course, doesn't include the case of the actually malicious user, who may well be *intentionally* sending out viruses he's collected. His system's immune to them, so collecting them poses no threat to him, but you, as the recipient, may not be so lucky.
Nor does it include the possibility that the user isn't merely collecting viruses, but actually creating them, and using his - or a - Linux system to deploy them.
Golly gee, *four* cases where you can get a virus which has, indeed, come to you *from* a Linux box. Of these, only one does your snide atbreastude even begin to approach legitimacy for... and even in that case, you are, in fact, still receiving it from the Linux box; it simply didn't originate there.
That you get a virus targetting one system - Windows - says absolutely nothing about what system was used to develop, deploy, or distribute said virus; the entire process, apart from the actual infection stage, could be done on a non-Windows system.
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