Do I need to worry about viruses and defragmentation?

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM, markfpyles <markfpyles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> I was just wondering since I am just coming off of a windows machine whether
> or not I need to have some type of anti-virus software installed and also if
> I need to worry about defragmentation. Thanks.

No and no :-)

(the fine print)
You can of course accidentally forward a virus without knowing it and
it will infect the person you sent it to still...

And, if you run a very full harddrive (say over 95% full) for a length
of time you can actually start to have some fragmentation because the
system just doesn't have enough room to keep things tidy.
(end the fine print)

Brian