Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> In my experience, only certain people have this problem.

People who fiddle around with it without knowing what they're doing, yes. I 
think if Linux was as widely deployed as Windows, it would be just as much a 
target for viri and scammers.

I.e., I think Windows is much less vulnerable now especially with UAC turned 
on by default, and what protects Linux is more that it isn't popular enough 
to be valuable to the current virus writers that do it for money.

Of course, Linux probably has fewer holes in the default distros than 
Windows does.  But it's not like there have never been holes in Unix-based 
OSes that, say, brought down the internet.

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