Do I need to worry about viruses and defragmentation?

[Diogo Böhm]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:50 -0500, Michael Haney wrote:
> > 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.


More people using linux = more people to fix possible vulnerabilities = even
safer linux

Being windows, being linux, the advice is the same. Avoid unknown sources.

Even windows becomes a secure place IF you know what you're doing and even
linux becomes vulnerable if you don't.
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