The trusty ol’ T43 got sick this weekend with the “Windows Anti-Virus 2008″ virus. Try as I might, I could not get it off of Windows XP. I tried everything and every software to no avail. Luckily I didn’t decide to the buy the “anti-virus” software they were pitching to solve the “virsuses” they had detected on my computer (this particular virus is actually mal-ware which tries to convince you that you have viruses and to buy their software to fix it).
I read tales of woe of those who “bought” the software only to have their accounts drained.
But as I was giving up and cursing windows for making such an insecure Operating System (really? Windows, you couldn’t have prevented such an attack?), I remebered that ntaylor0909 had just given me a copy of Ubuntu Server 8.04….
So I wiped ‘er clean and am now up on Ubuntu Linux.
I have to say so far I’m quite impressed. It’s free… it works… all the programs for it are free… and they work too… and I hear that it’s even quite secure.
Thank you Linux!
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