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Posted on November 5, 2009 at 19:46:38
amioutaline?
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 Yesterday I Googled my way to a post on Good Sound Club and The Cat gave me fleas! A Rootkit, a malware and 2 trojan horsies. In all the coomotion I forgot what I was Googling but do be careful over there.

Avast was up to the job and no harm done but a few anxious moments.

RE: PC virus warning my ass!, posted on November 9, 2009 at 12:50:09
34534534
 Are you sure? Be advised that you comments sound ridicules. I own the GoodSoundClub domain runs since 1999 and there was no security problem at my site. There was one idiot a few years back who reported the same as what you do but that cetin used anonymous proxy to access my site an only God know what they inject in his response object. Anyhow, I am an IT professional I run very vicious intension detection at my site and I am convinces that you accusation is just a user foolishness on your part.

Romy the Cat
RE: amateur web sites in general, posted on November 9, 2009 at 05:20:40
LousyTourist
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 are good places to pick up all kinds of nasties.

Nothing is harder than keeping an Internet connected computer offering services free from attack.


The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
-- John Maynard Keynes
Something connected with Romy is corrupted and worthless?, posted on November 7, 2009 at 10:58:07
Rob Doorack
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 Wow, there's a surprise.

Get Xubuntu Linux already and be done with the drama!, posted on November 6, 2009 at 10:13:36
Ralph
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 Xubuntu.org

Download is free. No viruses anymore. No blue screens. Tons of software- all free and available with one click.

If you love to fiddle with computors keep your windon'ts. If you like for things to just run so you can get on with life, xubuntu is easier.

Once upon a time, posted on November 6, 2009 at 11:13:37
MylesJ
 Once upon a time nobody wrote virii for Linux. The latest Firefox patches included securing things that could get hit under Linux. Apple now ships new computers with antivirus. Remember, the earliest virii were Unix ones, Unix being the only operating system with reasonable installs and publically available documentation back then. Look up the history of attacks against BIND if you want to find out more.

RE: Once upon a time, posted on November 6, 2009 at 12:30:24
Ralph
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 The big reason virii will not propagate under Linux is as soon as there is a download, Linux asks what you want to do with the download- what application you want to open with it. It can't autoexecute, and of course most virii do not 'support' the Linux environment, nor is the Linux community doing anything to aggravate its user base, so there are no viruses out in the wild.

Sure you can compromise Firefox. But that is not the same as compromising the system! Windows OTOH if you compromise Explorer, you have access to the root level of the Windows kernel- people don't realize that Exploter and Lookout are kernal services, not separate programs. That's why Windows is so vulnerable. With Linux you have to go through a few layers.

On top of that just the plain reliability is another issue entirely. I have been running Linux at a user level (I really just point and click for most of my work) for 9 years. In that time I think I might have seen a kernal crash once. There is not a windows user in the world that can say that! That's what I mean by no drama: no rebooting, no goofy 'unresponsive' stuff (y'all know what I mean!) no fiddling around. It just works.

amen!, posted on November 7, 2009 at 06:19:39
bullethead
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 A proud Linux user here since 1997 (slackware 3.0), now I'm using Ubuntu on my server and laptop and have 0 problems.

Good to see a fellow "high end operating system" user here.

cheers!

Spyware Doctor w/anitvirus is great too., posted on November 6, 2009 at 10:05:22
howard
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 nt

RE: PC virus warning, posted on November 6, 2009 at 02:29:49
audioAl
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 As Smokey the Bear says: Don't start forest fires! I use AVG free or Webroot 2010 $30.00 Cheers!
Vista Ultimate 32bit/Diamond XS Dac/ Sterovox coaxial line in to Insignia Amp/Cambridge SoundWorks& Infinity RS 1001 Speakers
RE: PC virus warning, posted on November 5, 2009 at 21:36:41
AudioSoul
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Yes, Avast is great! It saved my butt several times.......

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