Linux developers 92% have not suffered malicious code attacks

Linux developers 92% have not suffered malicious code attacks
Date: 2004/07/30 Source: sina.com.cn

Market research vendor Evans Data company published a survey on Wednesday: only 8% of Linux developers experienced system virus infection, making "Linux. windows is becoming more intense.

According to a survey of 500 Linux developers, Evans found that the overwhelming majority of respondents reported that their computers were never infected with malicious code, less than 7% of visitors said they had suffered more than three hacker attacks. Only 22% of respondents claimed that their systems had been hacked.

According to a similar survey conducted by Evans in the spring, nearly 60% of non-Linux developers admitted they were under security attacks, and 32% of respondents were under three or more attacks.

Does this mean that Linux is a safer operating system? Nicholas, an analyst in the Linux field at Evans, believes this is true. In a statement, he said there are not as many Linux attacks as Windows, which is strange. The reason for the Linux operating system being safer is very simple. More people can view the source code, which means that there will be very few bugs that will become "the fish of the Internet". Naturally, its security will be higher.

The investigation also found that 76% of developers believed that the SCO group's lawsuit would not or would never affect their company's use of the Linux operating system, this figure is eight percent higher than the previous investigation, indicating that the SCO group's lawsuit will not have a big impact on the popularity of Linux operating systems. (Jieshiwang, Liu Yanqing)