More than half of Windows machines are INFECTED with malware

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 15:06:13 BST 2009


2009/10/10 Cybe R. Wizard <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net>:
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:07:04 +0200
> Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:

>> This one small thing makes it easier to run Linux as a guest
>> on top of Windows.

> I see this often and yet still ask, "why?"  What does running Linux
> under Windows do for anyone?  The other way around I could understand,
> but why sacrifice security and stability to do it /that/ way?


Microsoft's marketing is to the people who sign the cheques; Linux's
word-of-mouth is to the techies. Presumably this is when the powers
that be have dictated WINDOWS EVERYWHERE and you want at least the
virtual machines to be sane.


- d.



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