>> Some day, I might run a Linux box again. But I don't think I'd set one 
>> up for my grandma.
> 
>   Then you'll have to clean it from spyware once a month. Is that really a
> better alternative?

In my experience, only certain people have this problem.

My dad's PC seems to get infected with puzzling frequency. But my 
mother's PC has yet to be infected, ever. Same goes for my PC, my 
sister's laptop, my grandparents' PC, and so on. Also, where I work, 
certain people's PCs get infected from time to time, but most of them 
remain completely clean.

Certainly Windows is radically more vulnerable to malware than Linux. 
But if you operate the computer sensibly, it tends not to cause 
problems. In other words, using Windows does *not* necessarily mean 
constant malware issues.

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