11 May
2017
11 May
'17
9:04 a.m.
I wouldn't bet on that. I've intercepted five or six Windows botnet viruses that implement just enough of SSH to get the job done and masquerade as Linux machines.
Telnets back to ports 22, 25 and 80 all report Linux.
Both immitators and actual Linux malware is out there. It's not hard to lie about a service when you contol the service, though. Assuming malware-freeness due to running Linux is probably not correct nowadays, in the same way that "Macs don't get viruses" is incorrect -- yeah, way less of a target than Windows, but it's out there. Thanks, Jonathan (also a Linux user)