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The Halifax Chronicle Herald: Linux an Easy Alternative

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 23, 2006

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“You run a Windows computer without anti-virus protection or
forget to update your software, boom, your computer is taken over
by the bad guys and serves as part of a botnet, a zombie army of
home computers that are the source of more than 80 per cent of junk
e-mail, among other nastiness.

“Odds are that more than half the Windows users reading this
column have computers that have been compromised in some manner
without their owners knowing it.

“One solution is to switch your computer from Windows to the
Open Source operating system Linux…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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