Dick,
Please reassure your wife that your linux machine will be safe. The
article I've linked is a good intro level explanation of the reasons behind
relative virus vulnerability between windows, linux, and OsX. It's a few
years old, but the core still holds.
-Mike
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/
--
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. -- Richard Feynman
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>wrote:
> A friend has asked me to help with cleaning off an older computer of
> theirs. Over the years their son downloaded lots of stuff without
> knowing too much about the safety of each site he visited.
>
> The machine is some flavor of Windows -- might be Win98 or XP. They have
> some data they want to keep. My thought is to network their machine to
> my laptop and copy those files. Then, I could reload Windows for them.
> (I don't think I could talk them into Linux.)
>
> My wife is concerned about contaminating my laptop with viruses. I told
> her that Windows viruses don't affect Linux, but she isn't convinced.
> She asked me to ask all of you, and that she'll go along with your
> recommendations.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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