Do I need to worry about viruses and defragmentation?

Tue Nov 4 22:24:20 UTC 2008

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:50 -0500, Michael Haney wrote:
> Arguments?  Oh, I've seen flame wars break out over the subject. 

Yeah. I figured the OP will find out if he reads the archives :)

> The overall consensus is there's nothing to worry about until Linux
> becomes as popular an OS as Windows, which is the only reason why
> ScriptKiddies and Crackers (Hackers don't write viruses) target that
> OS oh 99.99% of the time.

Well, market share is certainly a factor, but let's not completely
discount that Windows does have certain properties that make it more
vulnerable to email viruses, and it had even more in the past.