>The reason Linux and Mac users don't see much in the way of viruses is that their user base isn't large enough for the virus writers to bother with. Why aggravate 100 people when you can aggravate 1,000,000 people?
Not so fast, Bucko. It is true that Linux malware does exist but the rarity of malware on Linux is not entirely due to Linux's smaller installed base. It's a situation where one OS was designed from the ground up to be secure, while the other was designed from the ground up to be CONVENIENT (which is to say INsecure). There are more than enough Linux clients to attract the attention of the Russian crime syndicates behind most malware, but it's not worth their time when Windows is so easy to crack. Should Microsoft ever clean up its act, maybe we'll see some Linux viruses.
As for the alarmist article you posted, everything is not as it seem. This is a VULNERABILITY, not a virus. Discovery of a vulnerability doesn't mean anyone has exploited it. It may not mean an exploit is even possible. It's a bug someone found in the code and fixed. All the major distributions have already posted fixes for this bug; most folks running Linux apply updates regularly (I update my system every day or two) and will get the vulnerability patched the next time they run their updates. This particular bug is what is known as a "buffer overflow". Buffer overflows are fairly common in programs written in the C language; they are considered to be very serious bugs, but not all buffer overflow bugs can be exploited by malware. Fortunately there are thousands of programmers constantly reviewing the Linux code base, so these problems are usually found and fixed long before they can be exploited.
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