[Gllug] Linux has arrived

[Alain Williams]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:18:58AM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Sun 22 Mar, Alain Williams wrote:
> > 
> 
> > * Linux people tend to buy less s/ware from them, either because they can
> >   get equivalents for free (ooo, gimp, ...) or they don't need it (norton a/v, ...)
> 
>    I recently saw a report that about a third of all machines that had been
> infected or hacked were fully patched and had up to date anti virus
> software. That must be about the normal real-world ratio for M$ boxes.

I never said that the a/v stuff was really effective ...

What proportion of M$ boxen get some kind of infection is a year - on average ?
I don't have any, so don't know.

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