The Ubuntu Experiment

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/7/31 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>> And of course he was right.  And really, I do advocate using AV on
>> Windows,
>> but "must" is an awfully strong word.  If people would just not surf to
>> completely suspicious sites, and not download suspect files, they'd be
>> much less likely to have virus problems.
> 
> On Windows the users have no choice. Let's say that a user needs one of:
> 1) A checksum program
> 2) An office suit
> 3) Name software here
> 
> He has to go out and google and download a program. Naturally  he will
> come across websites and software authors that he is not familiar
> with. How does one become familiar otherwise?

Again, you're probably right.  But even when I did have to rely on Windows I
didn't just download any old software.  If you don't do a _little_
checking, you get what you deserve.
-- 
derek