The state of the hack
Pieter Claassen · Network Security · 2004
Previously, computer viruses and worms rarely made headline news but today it is a regular occurrence. Malware (viruses that require user action to be activated and worms that exploit a vulnerable system without user intervention) still primarily threaten Microsoft Windows products and very few Linux desktop users feel the pain. The reasons for this might be either the fact that there are so many more Microsoft products in the market or that the Linux software engineering model and implementation is inherently more secure.