Virus!!

[dbhost]

Microsoft can't count?

Lets see..

Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows ME <- Ugh, that was the WORST version ever
Windows 98
Windows NT
Windows XP
Windows Vista <- Bloatware

Boy you missed a few there...

Windows 1.0 (A windowing shell for DOS)
Microsoft BOB, A.K.A. Windows 2.0
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1 (The first Windows most people remember).
Windows 3.11 A.K.A. Windows for Workgroups.
Windows NT 3.51
Windows 95
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Windows NT 4.0 Server
Windows 95 OSR/2 (This was an OEM Service release that actually worked okay)
Windows 98
Windows 98-B Kind of like OSR/2.
Windows ME (Millenium Edition) Still technically Windows 9x (95/98) but with some NT stuff thrown in there to hose things up a LOT...
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2000 Server Small Business Edition (Your entire Active Directory in one box, it sucked worse than ME).
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows XP Tablet Edition
Windows XP Education Edition (Shipped to a lot of Asian and African nations).
Windows 2003 Server (and like versions akin to Windows 2000 Server)
Windows Vista and its many variants, AKA Windows ME Second Edition.
Windows 2008 Server and it's many variants.

[Hellrazor]

Boy you missed a few there...

I was just naming the more popular ones in order to realize "7" isn't the proper number. I have no idea how they dreamed the 7 up. I think they should just name it after the year it was released.

[JSUPreston]

Boy you missed a few there...
Microsoft BOB, A.K.A. Windows 2.0

Actually, Microsoft BOB was a shell similar to the Packard Bell Explorer. It required Win 3.1 or greater if I remember correctly. Windows 2.0 was somewhat of a cross between the DOS Shell known as Windows 1.0 and Windows 3.x. BOB could run on Windows 95, but very few did, from what I understand.

[LinuxRandal]

The nice thing about Linux is that
no anti virus is needed.

Thank you Linus Torvalds!

You are going to catch a virus accept or deny?
blah blah. Yep, not ever going to swap Windoze into my machines for darn good reason...

I don't entirely agree with that. There are distro's that run you in a mode with too many permissions to begin with, and/or don't give you the admin password (stupid design, unless they are built for your internal organization, by you the admin). Also there are at least two theoretical (lab tested) viruses, but there are still fewer users, so fewer people looking to exploit the machine.

That said, I personally believe one should still have an antivirus program running on a Linux box that is acting as a Samba server. You could capture any virus sent to it, before it getting spread out in an organization, on a machine that could safely deal with it.

[dbhost]

I don't entirely agree with that. There are distro's that run you in a mode with too many permissions to begin with, and/or don't give you the admin password (stupid design, unless they are built for your internal organization, by you the admin). Also there are at least two theoretical (lab tested) viruses, but there are still fewer users, so fewer people looking to exploit the machine.

That said, I personally believe one should still have an antivirus program running on a Linux box that is acting as a Samba server. You could capture any virus sent to it, before it getting spread out in an organization, on a machine that could safely deal with it.

Oh we aren't talking Ubuntu... Ubuntu is nice enough for Grandma, but when they release a distribution with a publicly available root password, I won't use it... And yes, Antivirus should be run as a courtesy to Windows users. Sure there are fewer users on Linux than Windows... I likes it that way... Sure there are theoretical viruses for Linux, that require an admin be insanely stupid to get them to run, and SELinux running in an excessively permissive mode.

[dbhost]

Actually, Microsoft BOB was a shell similar to the Packard Bell Explorer. It required Win 3.1 or greater if I remember correctly. Windows 2.0 was somewhat of a cross between the DOS Shell known as Windows 1.0 and Windows 3.x. BOB could run on Windows 95, but very few did, from what I understand.

Did I really include BOB there?

Sorry, Must have been tequila talking...

[LinuxRandal]

Oh we aren't talking Ubuntu... Ubuntu is nice enough for Grandma, but when they release a distribution with a publicly available root password, I won't use it... And yes, Antivirus should be run as a courtesy to Windows users. Sure there are fewer users on Linux than Windows... I likes it that way... Sure there are theoretical viruses for Linux, that require an admin be insanely stupid to get them to run, and SELinux running in an excessively permissive mode.

Never looked at Ubuntu, but if they release the root password, then one should be able to change it.
One of the distro's I was thinking about, I haven't seen in a couple of years. It was a CD based install (not dvd), that you didn't get the root password, it asked to set you up as a user. I believe its intent was for an organization, but it was found out in the wild.