Lindows sells virus protection

Posted Feb 20, 2003 17:23 UTC (Thu) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link]

This is a good point: while Linux may not be affected by a virus, it could be a carrier for viruses and transport them to other systems that can be infected. Home computer users, like my mom, love to forward emails to other people. Lindows, meant for the casual home user, could be such a carrier/distributor of Windows-targeting email viruses, for example.

In our corporate office we not only scan incoming mail but outgoing as well. As bad as an incoming virus may be it can't compare to the humiliation, loss of trust and goodwill and possible liability of us sending viruses to client, vendors and colleagues.

No idea what Lindows is doing, exactly, but this does raise a valid point for all of us to consider: our obligation to filter our outgoing content to others using targetted, infectable systems.