[ale] Linux Distributions

[Michael B. Trausch]

Marvin Higginbottom, international man of mystery wrote:
> 
> Yes.
> 
> My mother and my sister share a computer they use for the various 
> internet thingies moms and sisters do, and it's a windows XP box.
> 
> Until I set it up so I was the only person with an "administrator" 
> account, and gave them "limited" accounts, their computer would get 
> hosed with trojans, viri, spyware, and other malware constantly- and
> I had to go up there and fix it for them every few weeks.
> 
> Now they have to ask me to install stuff for them, but their computer
>  has been virus/trojan/malware free since I took this step.
> 
> And running even a "limited" windows account is way less secure than 
> running a linux user account.  There's every reason in the world to
> not run as root (or even "admin" under windows), and no reason in the
> world to justify it, as anything you could concieveably do with your
> computer can be done from a user account- even if you do have to
> occasionally rely of "sudo" or some other form of switching to root
> user to do this or that.
> 

If only there were more people willing to do that for users; bandwidth
net-wide could be saved.

	- Mike

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Michael B. Trausch                               <fd0man at gmail.com>
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