Antivirus and anti spam for ubuntu desktop

[valhalla2100 at comcast.net]

Hello,

Sorry for not answering before now.

Yes, the Google alerts are lists of new websites or
pages with (or existing that added) information on
various subjects.  The one that I think caused the
problem was presented as one on Layers tutorials.
Instead, I got switched to the page with malware.

I am aware that the problem could happen again.   
Reason that I switched from Ubuntu was the many
problems that resulted from buggy code.

I am interested in learning more about what you
suggested (Firefox + NoScript + AdBlock).



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From: "Steve Flynn" <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:07:30 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Antivirus and anti spam for ubuntu desktop

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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.

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Steve Flynn
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