--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 12/17/2011 11:08 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"<jstein@> wrote: > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > >> "curtisdeltablues"<curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > >>> After spending over an hour responding to your responses last > >>> night I was attacked by a virus which has now eaten up 3 hours > >>> of my morning. It is a pernacious bastard that uses popups to > >>> pretend it is an aniti virus program that you must buy. No > >>> matter how I attack it it comes back. > > Still swinging. The advice on the internet is also dubious and often > > incomplete but I am learning stuff I didn't think I would have to know. So > > glad I can bang out short posts on the ipad. > > > > That's why I run Linux (Ubuntu 10.04). I guess if your REALLY need > Windows you could a) run a dual boot or b) run Linux or Windows as a > Virtual Machine. Now Stevie is gone maybe Apple will get the balls to > release iOS for any PC. I'd love to see Redmond freak out at that. > People would switch in a minute.
I can only second that. I run Ubuntu and different Linuxes since many years, there are simply no viruses. Run Apple at work, but love the open systems. I also have a XP on a partition, but probably delete it, as it is old, and I never use it.
