Windows essential

[rasenove]

There are? D:

Il put these here.

www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229

www.unixmen.com/meet-linux-viruses/

[fluxdaemon]

I was being sarcastic

[Daemon]

There are viruses for linux os you know.

There are? D:

Just FYI for everyone out there, the first virus ever written and released into the wild was written for the *nix kernel. Just because you run *nix doesn't mean your magically virus proof, flaws and exploits exist everywhere, what it means is that your odds of getting a virus on *nix are beyond slim because such a small percentage of people use *nix as their main desktop in the world that it just isn't good business for a virus writer to write it for *nix. There definitely are virus's for it, and some really nasty rootkits too.

[lucid]

No AV for me. As said before obviously linux isn't foolproof but I am not worried about getting infected. I haven't had a virus on Windows for quite awhile and I use no AV.

[0poitr]

There are viruses for linux os you know.

Of course there are. But the magnitude of their ability to spread is extremely low, of course depending on the user's discretion, the privileges of the user account used.
Linux viruses would be actually be very target rich as most web services these days are run on linux and despite few are heard of. The main barrier is file permissions. That just kills the spread vectors.

But all this doesn't mean linux boxes are secure from all attacks. There are vulnerabilities in softwares and one just needs to find a door and a trick to get their way in.