31 July 2010, 7:47 pm
I've been having so much trouble with computers. It seems that every computer I touch gets a trojan or some horrendous form of malware, though I have multiple antivirus protections, never open suspicious emails, and only frequent 6 different websites that are supposed to be extremely secure. I'm currently running windows 7, and have gotten another trojan that disabled my antivirus software. I'm having a friend come over to try and fix it, but if he can't, I have two options. I can switch to Linux, or spend $170 dollars to get a professional to fix my computer. I pay hundreds of dollars to get my computers fixed, and have fried 3 computers in 3 years. Granted, two of them were already at least 7 years old. But my current one is brand new. I was thinking about just wiping the system and reinstalling windows, since I have nothing on there that I really need. But I would have to pay a ton just to get another windows OS disk (bastards at Office Depot didn't give me the disk when they set me up with a new computer). Now, I'm going to be going to college soon and intend to minor in computer science. I've read a lot about Linux and know that it would be able to teach me a lot about programming, as well as give me much better protection against viruses. I'm pretty good at programming right now, but just can't seem to deal with these trojans that come out of nowhere. Can anyone tell me why or why not to just boot Linux onto my computer? I don't care about the hardware compatability or programs that windows has versus Linux. I just want plain facts: will I be able to keep viruses off? and Is it something that I can learn to operate? In your experience, will Linux be my best bet? I run off the same internet connection as 5 other computers. I don't use my computer for anything but schoolwork now - everything else is done on my phone. However, my grandmother opens just about every single suspicious email and site. I'm thinking that I got it from her computer, since it's showing the same error messages.... Read More »
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