I have been a solid Linux user for more than a decade now… and have never had a virus.  Granted I am a Unix\Linux systems admin and the last (and only) time my system was hacked was by a co-worker who found a bug in the backup software we were using.

Anyhow, Mary has to use Windows (which I understand, though can not wait to get her a Mac).  I really feel bad for Windows users with all the malicious code out there.  For the longest time I have believed that local governments and schools cold save a lot of money in time and licensing by using something like Ubuntu (my Linux flavor of choice, hey- it is a Debian variant).  Why are we giving money to Redmons, WA… when we have OSDL just down the street from us?  No too mention that that money could go to local consultants and stay in our local economy.

But back to Mary’s system.  Wow, this bug on it was straight up nasty.  I had to use my fallback  Linux rescue boot disk, mount her disk and remove files that way.  Now that Spybot Search and Destroy is running, all should be good.

Categories: Linux, Portland politics
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