Now You Need a Linux PC Just to Keep the Viruses off your Windows PC
Urgent notice to all Windows users: Due to the security problems of Windows, you now need to purchase a Linux computer in order to keep the viruses and spyware off your existing Windows PC.
Yes, its true, a security company called Yoggie just announced a USB device that plugs into a Windows computer to keep it safe from viruses. The device, which looks like a big USB flash drive is really an entire computer that runs Linux. The idea is that you plug this thing in to your computer and its 13 applications will keep your computer safe without using up the resources of your current computer. The problem is, when an operating system gets to the point where you need another computer running a more secure operating system to keep the original computer from getting stuffed with viruses and spyware, it might be a good idea to think about just using that more secure operating system, in this case Linux.
Seriously, there has to come a point when Windows users are going to look at the resources they are throwing away and the viruses they are getting and say this is enough! At that point, Linux must be ready to provide an easy-to-use, secure, bloat-free desktop. Luckily, Linux already has all that.
January 7th, 2008 at 10:39 am
This is too funny. The thought of someone buying a linux computer to plug into their windows box to babysit it and keep it safe is insane. When will people learn you don’t have to keep flushing money down the drain trying to protect your insecure windows computer and can just run Linux and be done with it. Great find…thank for the post!
January 7th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Actually, this is just a copy of another Microsoft “innovation”. Way back in 2003, Microsoft was using the Linux servers at Akamai to protect their microsoft.com servers from the Blaster worm:
Despite all the hype, I haven’t seen any evidence that Windows security has improved much.
On a related note, Bruce Schneier has a note on his blog that the US Army is starting to use more Macintosh machines for security reasons:
Maybe they’ll figure out some day that they can get the same benefits for free using Linux — even in the land of $700 toilet seats.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Oops … WordPress apparently ate the links in my previous post. I’ll try again. For the 2003 Blaster incident, see
== http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit033.html
For Schneier’s blog post, see:
== http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/us_army_install.html
I hope this one works.
January 9th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Yeah that’’s why I started using Linux. I wanted something more secure and I couldn’t afford to buy a Mac. I was impressed by the security record of Open BSD, but to be honest it just seemed too awkward. So I tried Debian and stayed with it.