Windows Malware: The final straw that broke the penguin's back
Suffice it to say that last week was a pretty crappy one for me. My FaceBook account was somehow compromised, causing untold amounts of my friends to receive a spammed invite to some sort of diet seminar scam event and then having to endure the embarrassment that accompanied it.
The compromise itself was easily rectified. The bottom line, however, is that I suffered this compromise because I used Windows. If I had been using any other operating system, it probably wouldn’t have happened. Linux will be my safe haven from now on.
I’m not the only one in the household who’s just been Linuxed this weekend.
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