Antivirus and anti spam for ubuntu desktop

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, valhalla2100 at comcast.net wrote:

> Many people were and are having problems.
> My problems were not unique.

With the same site?

>
> I decided to give Mint a try after I was not able
> to get a copy of Debian.  I did pick up a magazine
> with a couple of other distros which I was going
> to try if Mint did ot work.  So far, there have
> not been any problems.  I have not fully set it
> up - using the browser for e/m from Comcast and
> not Thunderbird or other program.

You're kidding yourself if you think Mint is less vulnerable than 
Ubuntu, which is close to bulletproof itself.

>
> I was aware that Mint is based upon Ubuntu but
> hope that it was not released before it was ready.

Why do you think Ubuntu wasn't? All releases of all distributions have 
teething problems, although If you installed a recent Ubunyu iso most 
of the glitches would have been fixed.


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Bob Holtzman
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