Re: Seriously, has anybody ever seen a serious virus problem in Windows when using AV protection?
- From: Little Charlie <littlecharlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:25:09 -0500
That AV data is very nearly a FULL YEAR OLD coming from May 2009.
Their most recent test data on that site is FEB 2010.
However to answer your question YES...I have seen malware blocked here
as recently as yesterday in a zipped archive. My PC was infected once
years ago with Spanska4250 virus...that was about 20 years ago. The fact
that Linux boxes are less infected is in part because Linux boxes make
up less then 1 % of the world wide installed base of PCs. They also
have a more secure default user environment which is to their credit.
Just yesterday I burned the Ubuntu v10 beta 1 CD and 'played around'
with it just from the CD w/o installing. It was interesting but I cannot
see revamping my already smooth running Windows 7 system to (supposedly)
obtain a different breed (Linux) of smooth running operating system just
for alleged AV advantages. The real difference I'll never switch to a
Linux box is availability of truly great software..not just so-called
Linux "equivalent' stuff which is NOT nearly as good.
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