Windows Worm Infects Millions
January 18th, 2009 by ComputerBob
Wow, how many times over the years have we all seen that same headline?
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve been using Linux full-time instead of Windows since July, 2006. When I was starting out, I used Kubuntu Linux for about a month, then Mepis Linux for more than a year, and I’ve been using Debian Linux for more than the past year.
Linux has become an old friend that I can trust to always boot up, always be free from all forms of malware, and always give me complete control over what I want to do with my PC. I’ve said it many times before — with Linux, I feel like my PC is really my PC.
On the other hand, whenever I use Windows, its closed-source and by-design restrictions on every user’s freedoms make me feel like I’m using someone else’s PC without their permission.
In short, the more I use Linux, the less I trust Windows. My PC has never had a virus or any other type of malware in Linux, even though the only security software that I’ve ever run is the built-in Linux firewall. In contrast, I hold my breath every time I boot up Windows on my own PC or someone else’s, to help them with a problem that they’ve run into. I never know for sure if Windows is going to completely boot up or not, or if one or more of its many built-in user-restriction systems or required 3rd-party, duct-taped security systems is going to throw up an obscure error message that will take me hours to decipher and fix.
For the record, I’m really, really, really glad that I use Linux full-time instead of Windows.
If you’re still using Windows, you’re about to experience déjà vu: Windows Worm Infects Millions.
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