Antivirus and anti spam for ubuntu desktop

[Steve Flynn]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 18/03/10 18:57, valhalla2100 at comcast.net wrote:
> Your reply is wrong.
> 
> I was infected when I checked out a Google Alert 
> PhotoShop Layer.  Turned out that the URl was not

What's a Google Alert Photoshop layer? A URL pointing to a page which
was supposed to be about layers but presented you with drive-by malware?

> for information on layers.  I went to a page that
> had PhotoShop [and other text that I did not get
> to read] on it and I was instantly taken to anot
> horrible page.  Pop-ups and when I tried to use
> the computer the next day my e/m did not work. 
> I rebooted and nothing worked.
> My solution was to buy a new hard drive and switch
> from Ubuntu to Mint.  

Are you saying your hard-drive was trashed by some malware?

I guess you're aware that if you're using mint (for example) and visit
the same page with the same browser there's a pretty good chance you're
going to get nailed by the same malware?

Firefox + NoScript + AdBlock will prevent pretty much anything infecting
Linux, Windows. AIX or any other OS you care to use.

- -- 
Steve Flynn
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iEYEARECAAYFAkuiefEACgkQpOzvLkUb86B+yQCgy97WNEIJvHKB6YIJBzKw2BnC
HN8An0KhhI+co0nU8apQJiZtOcLTIJbb
=F1sA
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----