The Ubuntu Experiment

[Dotan Cohen]

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?

I won't even get into the realm of cracked software on Windows, with
it's preinstalled malware. Or cracked OS itself.

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Dotan Cohen

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