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On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Neil Winchurst wrote: > The computer world seems to be getting more insecure and > dangerous every day, right? I'm not sure if things are necessarily still getting worse. It's basically a cat-and-mouse game between those doing the bad stuff and those in the business of protecting computers. Sometimes the former win some, sometimes the latter do. (And regularly, users stand in front of a mouse hole, making it easy for the cats to catch the mice.) Things are a lot worse than they were ten years ago though. Cybercrime has become a business model, including a lot of outsourcing and QA; the era of kids in their bedrooms showing off their programming skills by writing viruses that changed your desktop background is beyond it. Not to mention the rise of government-sponsored malware. On the question of whether Linux is more secure, Gordon answered all your questions better than I could have. For a Linux desktop user, at the moment the threat it rather small. But it does exist and it is important to keep your system secure by installing patches, using secure passwords and running a firewall. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq