On 21/08/13 08:27, Colin Law wrote: > On 21 August 2013 04:05, Peter Maddison <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> NOTE the keyword -- IF you install it. >> Unless you NEVER use the OFFICIAL REPO and are totally careless with your >> system then there's a VERY high chance you could infect your system with ANY >> virus. > > I don't think that is what you meant to say, but I am not sure what > you did mean. > > Colin > I think he meant UN-official repos! And I am more fussy today than i was 6 years ago when i first made the leap from windoze do Ubuntu partly because I have now found my favourite packages, and know what I want, partly because I am more aware of the risks!
In some ways this has narrowed my view, and I am less likely to experiment with the latest (& possibly greatest) new thing out there, but at least my productivity has improved ;) in short as long as we are aware of the risks, we are (hopefully) all intelligent enough to make an informed choice, and we just have a duty to put the info out there to inform new users of the potential risks of adding random PPA's so they are equally well informed. Pete S (the first one);) -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
