Comment Re:Not more safe (Score 1) 611
The difference between Windows and Linux is how easy it is to remove stuff like this on Linux.
It was a deb. Which means the installation script, on the vast majority of users systems, is going to run as root. Which means the ease of removal can, depending on how clever the malware author is, be anything up to and including "practically impossible unless you have a lot of experience removing clever rootkits from a livecd".