A question on protection software

[valhalla2100 at comcast.net]

Hello , 

Thanks for your comments. 

Its good to know that its possible to use LINUX with so few problems. 
I am new to LINUX and I think that I am going to like it here. I wasn't 
too satisfied with Windows, or Microsofts predatory policies. 

Thomas 


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baldwin" <photodharma at gmail.com> 
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:24:06 AM GMT +00:00 Monrovia 
Subject: Re: A question on protection software 

Brian McKee wrote: 
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:33 AM, <valhalla2100 at comcast.net> wrote: 
>> Some while ago I was telling a Microsoft employee why I was interested 
>> in switching to LINUX. One of the reasons were the virusus and trojan 
>> problems. He told me that if I switch I will need to buy anti-virus type 
>> software. 
> 
> Yeesh. What a load of um, misinformation. 
> 
> Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MailingListFAQs/AVopinionsOnTheMailingList 
> 
> I'm disappointed no one else pointed out this resource. 
> 
> Brian 
> 

If it is of any consolation, I've been using gnu/linux exclusively on my 
computers for about a decade, now, and not once have I had a crash, 
virus, intrusion, spyware or malware issue, etc. 
(Once I lost a harddrive, but that was hardware failure, not software 
related...) 
I have never used any kind of AV software, not even a firewall, and 
don't even have my router locked down with wep, or anything. 
I just keep my systems up to date. 

Linux rocks! 
/tony 

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