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You are right that who wrote this virus were very professional and any operating system could be the target. Mullahs did the poor job by choosing the OS which would be not only the least secure choice and the most common target for virus - but once infected, the very same OS also is the most difficult to clean up.
Everyone who ever touched Windows knows how vulnerable and how difficult to fix the Registry is. I think, Microsoft over-abused it and with years Registry became a nightmare to maintain. On Unix systems there is Registry, too - but it's a fairly simple tree-like structure, much simpler to maintain than what is under Windows. Hence on Unix even in the case of a much less common virus infection the additional benefit is that the infection is easier to find and remove.
The additional problem is that under Windows it is much easier to "touch" the hardware from user-level application. Under Unix flavors you need device drivers and some sort of bridging software interface between the kernel and the user-level world.
These are well-defined layers and not only it is harder to compromise the security, it is also easier to remove the malware.
It's a bit like Billary and the Firefox. On one occasion, Billary was asked regarding Firefox being not used in her office. She told, the reason is the extra cost involved if Firefox would be PURCHASED. She apparently did not know, Firefox is for free.
On an other occasion, not sure was it in the Serbian or Hungarian government - but the involved politicians expected to get a deal from Microsoft to buy computers. So they choose Windows in the hope, MS will sell them cheap computers. They did not know, MS does not make PC-s.
No comment on that except I find it frightening, we are DEPENDING on these "wise" men/women in our day-to-day life.
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