Really? I'd say that means that they weren't really Joe Sixpacks or that I'm actually less technically inclined than Joe Sixpacks (which seems doubtful). Or maybe I'm just too busy with real work to have to spend hours making Linux do things that just plain work with Windows.





Sigh. I didn't say that I'd never have a virus. I said that a couple of decades of experience have taught me that locking my doors (AP, firewall, not executing silly attachments, and making regular backups) has been enough to keep me out of trouble. If experience teaches me otherwise, I'll take that experience into account. But so far my experience has taught me that the virus risk in Windows is greatly overstated if one just takes trivial precautions.



Yet my Windows machine has never done that. In fact, the only system that I've personally used that was ever compromised was my Internet webserver--a Linux box. Of course you'll tell me that that was my fault because I did or didn't do something. But the fact remains that the only system compromise I've ever had was on Linux.

Regards,
Craig Steiner