Ubuntu blues

[demon666_nl]

Martin Alderson Wrote: 
> I totally agree. But sadly every single one of those problems is going
> to occur on Linux.
> 
> 1) We will get viruses still. Viruses can very easily live in
> userspace. Therefore, Linux offers no extra protection. Infact, it
> probably offers less due to the huge array of programming languages
> (python, perl, php, bash etc etc) that it offers straight away. This
> means lots and lots of filetypes to exploit.
> 
> 2) Spyware, again, is a userspace thing and therefore can very easily
> happen. I could write you a Firefox extension that you could nistall
> and it would popup with a random advertiser every 5 seconds.
> 
> Martin
> 

On top of  Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy' answer :

You could write a firefox extension that pops up irritating popups. 
- you would be able to easily remove the extension
- in internet explorer dialog boxes can be changed to whatever. That's
confusing for for users who don't know they have to click "no" almost
everytime.
- even advanced windows users have to remove some spyware once in a
while

I do sympatise with you. I'm still running windows XP on my main pc
because :

-I like to play games once in a while
-my raid array isn't accesible in ubuntu and I don't want to lose my
data
-there was no Ubuntu before

I'm going to use my christmas break as a nice opportunity to make
ubuntu my default OS on my main pc. (lot's of backupping data needed)

I'll install dual boot Ubuntu with windows XP. I still can't miss XP
because of the games.


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