I’m calling BS on this “slightly” Here is an article that actually quantifies the number. Oh - it’s 30 as of 2009.
http://tuxgeek.me/2009/04/27/debunked-linux-oss-and-viruses/
Linux has had a better security model than Windows since day 1 mainly because it was evolved from a multi-user system originally, not a single user system. There was some really BAD ideas that Windows adopted early on like keeping the GUI system in Kernel Space instead of User space, etc. for performance reasons. Linux has ALWAYS had a permissions system built into it because Unix did.
The article also spells out some of Linux’s weakness in this area, not the least of which is the code is freely available to find holes in it!
As a rule - you need to keep your distro up-to-date to avoid being a target for hackers of all varieties, i.e. there are other problems beyond just viruses out there. Linux can have vulnerabilities due to outside applications such as Flash just like any platform can.
One article is going to undo the many reported instances of viruses and other malware for Linux?
It’s more like a: pick and choose the reports which support your argument, with discounting all the others which prove you and others like you wrong. That’s sort of like the way the junk scientists like to do things: select the data which supports their intended results, and hope that nobody notices.
“Slightly” is not the word you need. It’s more like, “perhaps”, which means that, it might be right or it might be wrong.