[Utilizer]

Thanks so much for the tip mate, but really the userbase for 'nix computers is hardly miniscule.

The Atari 2600, perhaps. *grin*

Or even smaller, Macs! (gasp!)

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Another one to watch out for is MalWare that redirects your browser to a site that looks just like PayPal, eBay and other common web sites.

It will change your Windows “hosts” file (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) so when you log into what looks like PayPal, for example, it will steal your username/password and drain your account.

The bogus “hosts” file will contain hundreds of URL’s - banking web sites included.

Easy to fix, but can be hard to detect for many people.

And yeah, kids/teens are the worst. They download all kinds of crap then they wonder why their PC takes so long to boot up and runs so slow. Then you look at all the icons in their SysTray and all of the Toolbars on their browser(s)

I have a password on my PC and no one uses it but myself.

I also backup all of my pics and other important docs and burn them to DVD on a regular basis so in a worst case scenario, I wipe my HD and reinstall my O/S and apps.

I also run AVG Internet Security and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and schedule them to run scans on a weekly basis.

[Peet]

Thanks so much for the tip mate, but really the userbase for ‘nix computers is hardly miniscule.

The Atari 2600, perhaps. *grin*

Or even smaller, Macs! (gasp!)

---

Smaller: FreeBSD