[plug] Rejoice as you use your Linux!

[Craig Ringer]

> ....for this is not your problem:

Until some little turd decides it's time to share the joy. Sure, it will 
be less damaging and require even greater user stupidity, but linux 
viruses/trojans WILL be a serious issue in the future. Don't get into 
the habit of thinking that you're fundamentally immune.

This is not to say go and buy a virus scanner - hell, I don't use one on 
my 2k partition. Why? Because I only download files from reasonably 
reputable sources, never run suspicious software, and never open an 
email attachment using mozilla under 2k ... just in case. (actually, I 
almost never read my mail under 2k but can do painlessly so because I 
use IMAP - same folders, everywhere I go). Oh, and I keep track of the 
latest viruses floating around.

I never had a virus scanner even years ago when I used win98 as my 
primary OS (relatively briefly - I went from long-time MacOS 7 use -> 
brief Win98 -> long term Linux), but I never got a virus. Alertness, 
awareness, and a little bit of think-before-you-act seems to do the 
trick. Oh, and never using outlook express - ever.

Craig Ringer