There are no known viruses in the wild that affect Linux however if you duel boot yes you could bring one home to the windows side of things. The administrative user in Linux is called "ROOT" thus the term rootkit. Hidden files that get in and act as root. The thing is the only way to get any nasties into Linux is to install them yourself unknowingly.They can't just get in becasuse they need a user name and password to install. If you follow the Linux convention you'll never get nasties and that is "download programs ONLY from the Linux repositories. Do not download from anywhere else. Secondly if you have a network you do have to run a firewall to protect your shared files


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