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And how many of these are detected by antiviruses or have malware written to take advantage of them?

What relevance does any of what you posted have to do with needing an antivirus? All of those vulnerabilities can be fixed by upgrading or modifying your distribution. no antivirus needed.

Oh really!! I see he was talking about antivirus for Ubuntu 12.04lts. :Crazy: and I went on giving lecture on vulnerabilities. :epic: :Gasp:
Lol. I agree. I need a sleep i guess. And yes, Linux doesn't protect you from bugs in JS and browsers. I know you will not need any AV in Ubuntu but still you can be sure about your wine programs with an AV, and i guess ubuntu can act as a carrier to spread viruses on usb drives that can hurt your windows system if you use it frequently in windows computer too . Correct me if I'm wrong.

Unlikely that it'll do any damage unless it was designed specifically to get at linux through windows, which is also quite unlikely.