Who doesn't bother with antivirus?

Linux has never had a successful virus propagate on the platform.

Some people argue it is because Linux has a smaller market share. On the other hand the most powerful backbone servers run Linux or BSD.

http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters?orderby=os_name
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

A botnet, would be most effective on backbone PCs with incredibly fast connections, yet they are never infected.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
 
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Paul_S said:
http://www.standardbank.co.za/SBIC/Frontdoor_02_01/0,2354,10293765_25076974_0,00.html

With the OTP (one time password) system that Standard Bank introduced it doesn't matter if someone uses a keylogger to get your pin and password.
They would also need to have stolen your cellphone to get the one time password in order to transfer money out of your account or set up a new beneficiary.
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Yes I know that.
But I say keep the pad, the more security layers you have the safer you are.
 
edc said:
ext3 is the default most of the time. It is a journaled file system. When your machine loses power it will start up and boot everything and run a "scandisk" in the background to fix data. ext3 is journaled meaning you don't ever lose any data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
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NTFS is a journalled file system too, and is remarkably good at recovering from things like sudden power loss.

In over 10 years of running hundreds of servers and workstations with NTFS, I don't think I've lost any data from sudden downtime. The only data losses I've had were from other factors: faulty RAM, and physical faults on hard drives.
 
Yep.

What's really disturbing is when manufacturers and system builders setup machines with FAT32 as default.

Acer are famous for this.

Claymore said:
NTFS is a journalled file system too, and is remarkably good at recovering from things like sudden power loss.

In over 10 years of running hundreds of servers and workstations with NTFS, I don't think I've lost any data from sudden downtime. The only data losses I've had were from other factors: faulty RAM, and physical faults on hard drives.
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If they'd let that file system work on Windows XP and the advantages are enough to convince me to use it, then sure.
 
Claymore said:
NTFS is a journalled file system too, and is remarkably good at recovering from things like sudden power loss.

In over 10 years of running hundreds of servers and workstations with NTFS, I don't think I've lost any data from sudden downtime. The only data losses I've had were from other factors: faulty RAM, and physical faults on hard drives.
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NTFS has metadata-only journaling only, the information about the file is saved but not the physical data itself.

The main problem with NTFS is viruses target the filesystem specifically. My flatmate has lost his file indexes several times over the past year, it may be a virus, but we think it is just a Windows feature.

ext3 and ext2 is readable and writable by XP through no help of Microsoft, don't think you can use it as the native filesystem though.

Seems we both trust in our filesystems of choice though. :o :) It is good to have options.
 
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