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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 72227" data-source="post: 799107">I agree!One can argue that Linux did do some things better than Windows when it came to security, however IMHO Windows has finally caught up for the most part. OS&#039;s in general are so massive now a days that there will always be bugs and vulnerabilities, it&#039;s just the nature of things. Malware infections are very few and far between in my experience. Those that do get infected, is usually because of things like cracked software, clicking on links/ad&#039;s, not updating Windows/other software, etc... It&#039;s more to do with habit&#039;s than anything else IMO.It&#039;s all about market share when it comes to&nbsp; hackers wanting to attack a particular product. In the case of Linux it&#039;s market share is what is really keeping it secure, it doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s not vulnerable. On the flip side, some times I think these situations create bad habits as you get people with the mentality like &quot;well I can do anything and everything I want, I&#039;ll never get infected because I&#039;m using Linux, not that stupid Windows.&quot;Spot on. As I&#039;ve always said your habits are just as important, if not more important than security software. They need to work together, you can&#039;t just have a piece of software, or use another OS and practice unsafe habits, as one day that software/OS will fail you. Doesn&#039;t mean you cannot get infected while using safe habits, but it significantly reduces your chances IMHO.No it can&#039;t.TBH phishing for the most part really isn&#039;t that harmful unless you enter your information. They are usually pretty easy to spot too. For example, if you get a page that looks likes gmail and is asking you to log into gmail, but the URL has nothing to do with Google/Gmail (which they usually don&#039;t), then close the web page and your good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 72227, post: 799107"] I agree! One can argue that Linux did do some things better than Windows when it came to security, however IMHO Windows has finally caught up for the most part. OS's in general are so massive now a days that there will always be bugs and vulnerabilities, it's just the nature of things. Malware infections are very few and far between in my experience. Those that do get infected, is usually because of things like cracked software, clicking on links/ad's, not updating Windows/other software, etc... It's more to do with habit's than anything else IMO. It's all about market share when it comes to hackers wanting to attack a particular product. In the case of Linux it's market share is what is really keeping it secure, it doesn't mean it's not vulnerable. On the flip side, some times I think these situations create bad habits as you get people with the mentality like "well I can do anything and everything I want, I'll never get infected because I'm using Linux, not that stupid Windows." Spot on. As I've always said your habits are just as important, if not more important than security software. They need to work together, you can't just have a piece of software, or use another OS and practice unsafe habits, as one day that software/OS will fail you. Doesn't mean you cannot get infected while using safe habits, but it significantly reduces your chances IMHO. No it can't. TBH phishing for the most part really isn't that harmful unless you enter your information. They are usually pretty easy to spot too. For example, if you get a page that looks likes gmail and is asking you to log into gmail, but the URL has nothing to do with Google/Gmail (which they usually don't), then close the web page and your good. [/QUOTE]

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