I can only answer this from personal experience and not from any technical expertise. I have run my lappie with Ubuntu for about 3 months now with no virus protection on it. I asked the same question on this list a few weeks ago, had some re-assuring replies and decided to run with it and try and shake off the Windows paranoia. So far it's been great to the extent that I try and do all e-mailing and Internet stuff on Linux now.
Woodsey On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 08:00 +1300, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > [snip] > > >Yes linux is safer, but its neither 100% safe nor idiot proof, for a > >failrly low level of idiocy :-) You might spend the rest of your life on > >a dialup non firewalled linux box and never regret it. You won't find > >that experience on some oses - unpatched box taken over in 10 minutes - > >we all know the stories. > > > > > I think 4 minutes is the latest figure for Windows XP SP1 without > firewall or antivirus. >
