From: "Stephen Burke" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Opening Bank Account
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 14:41:31 +0100

"Tumbleweed"  wrote in message
news:406c1868$0$7402$afc38c87@news.easynet.co.uk...
> most effective way to protect yourself against viruses at the moment is
not
> to stop using a M$ft email reader but to use Linux, which I would if I
could
> get it working on this PC, which I cant as its 'too new' at the moment.

Linux doesn't have so many viruses, but it still has plenty of security
holes. Install an unpatched Linux from a year or two ago, connect to the
internet without a firewall, and you'll probably be hacked within minutes.
E.g. here are the security updates for Red Hat 9 for the last year:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh9-errata-security.html

-- 
Stephen Burke