On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 08:41:21PM -0500, Dale wrote > OK. I do banking online. I also pay my bills online along with social > sites as well. I use Lastpass so that I can have some really REALLY > funky passwords. I think I am one of few that has not had his facebook > hacked. Anyway, I run Gentoo which is known here. I use > Firefox/Seamonkey as my web browser. So next question sort of takes us > back to my point with the knucklehead in the store. Am I safer, much > safer, using Linux over windoze? That answer would take into account > the fact that most virus/nasty code is written for windoze and not Linux > but also that Linux is just built with security in mind. I belive that > I am much safer with Linux myself.
You are safer overall. Just watch out for XSS (cross-site-scripting), java, Flash, and acrobat exploits. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
