I second Ubuntu. I installed it on my kids computer as they were always getting a virus or something on the Windows OS. Never had a problem one with the Ubuntu for the last 3.5 years.

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On 4/3/2012 1:17 PM, Ernest Christley wrote:

Lehanover@aol.com wrote:

My Kaspersky anti virus will not let me open anything that is dangerous.
No virus, no Trojans, no anything. Have not had one problem since I
loaded it the first day with this computer. It just puts up a red panel
with a sign that says "Access denied"
Saves a lot of grief.

Until it doesn't.

Not being snarky. That's just the truth of it. Virus/anti-virus is an arms race, and it always comes in that order.  The
crackers invent a new way to get your computer to do what they want, then the white hats find out about it and look for
an identifying "signature" that makes their piece of code look different than everyone else's.  The whole war, with its
convoluted set of side battles, is so complicated it makes one want to go build an airplane and use their own engine
that they convert from a car.

I use Linux,  Ubuntu being a particular version of that genre.  Being based on Unix which was originally designed for a
multi-user/networked environment, it has a design philosophy that makes it harder for virii to take hold in the first
place.  It is not immune, it just isn't the vinyl handbag masquerading as a safe that MS operating systems have always been.

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