Why there are not viruses on Linux?

Answer 1

there are, there are just fewer because less people use linux, so less people make viruses for it.

that, and linux has the capability to be a lot safer if you control all the aspects of it.

Answer 2

Think about it — If your ultimate goal is to maximize the chance of infection, would you target the 90% Windows users or the mere 3% Linux users?

Source: https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

Answer 3

Who told you Linux has no virus?

Answer 4

@Ahri Fox

if it was true, Linux should be primary target of Malware infection, because more than 80% high end servers run on Linux today. And by the way Android is a Linux based, so now probably there are more Linux devices on Earth than Windows.

@Ahri Fox wrote:
"there are, there are just fewer because less people use linux, so less people make viruses for it.

that, and linux has the capability to be a lot safer if you control all the aspects of it."

Answer 5

And 60% of mobile devices are based on Android which is Linux based, according to your link https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

"Google claims over 2 billion users with Android while Microsoft has claimed over 1.4 billion users for Windows."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

Unix-like servers (Where is Linux too) runs 70 - 98% of public servers.

So if you would be hacker would you target 70% of servers and 60% of mobile devices in the world? which is at least about 50% of all OS devices.

Answer 6

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.howtogeek.com/189036/android-is-based-on-linux-but-what-does-that-mean/amp/&ved=0ahUKEwjj5On5mKTWAhWEto8KHUsgAQIQFgiIATAO&usg=AFQjCNGBuW-H8uxdIXPjb3PabkyDpa_bfw&ampcf=1
Hope this link helps.

Answer 7

I found the link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware

there is the ANSWER... so my question is kind of silly. Hope for those like me it will be helpful.

and Thanks everybody for your attention and answers!

Answer 8

just like windows linux too have viruses but think that if a attacker wants to target more people would they make virus for mac or linux which have far less users than windows.