Posted by SpaceGirl on 07/12/07 12:40

On Jul 11, 10:14 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 2007-07-11, Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>
> > I have a good friend who asked me to come out and take a look at her
> > daughter's computer because it was really slow. Spybot Search and Destroy
> > came up with 1,401 malware programs and/or tracking cookies. The anti-
> > virus came up with 89 viruses and trojans. I got everything cleaned up,
> > installed a Hosts manager, Firefox and Opera (default). Then I told them
> > that IE was off limits.
>
> > Three days to fix this. Scarey.
>
> You could have installed GNU/Linux in a couple of hours or less.
>
> --
> Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
> ===================================================================
> Author:
> Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Have you even the slightest clue of how kids actually use machines? A
linux machine would be pretty much the least ideal platform, given the
lack of proper flash, games etc. I think the very first time she
realises she can no longer use her bebo or myspace or youtube pages
she'd be back on Windows.

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