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[doublejack]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dosraider @ Sep 11 2007, 10:54 AM) [snapback]310257[/snapback]</div>

*without much concern*
But that's now exactly the whole point of our little chatsession doublejack.

It's not *without concern*, but it is:
*without much concern*

Not UNprotected as you said.

Ubu box or not, you still need protection, and if you state you don't need some basic protection, you are:
or a liar
or a brainless parrot
or more sheep than the window users (who probably can't use some other OS, but there is no need to spit on them, lots of those windows users have qualities that we can only dream about having them).

And even if you're indeed not a 'target' for pro hackers, you're still one for the 10-12 years old who gonna use their snuffbots to be a big show off to their n00b friends.
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*without concern*

If you are *without concern* then you are either:

a moron
or a brainless parrot
or an idiot sheep

There is no such thing as a perfectly safe computer. You can have every piece of protection in the world and run some exotic custom OS, and if someone wants in bad enough, guess what? They'll get in. Ergo, I use the term *without much concern* because it describes the situation precisely.

The bottom line: My "unprotected" ubuntu box is as secure, if not more secure, than 99.999999999% of the Windows boxes out there that have protection.

-edit

Just to complete and address your other point. No, I do not have nor do I need any protection. The design of linux combined with my awareness is enough to keep my computer free of any virus/rootkit/malware/etc. Sorry to disappoint you, but that truth doesn't make me a liar, it makes you wrong. And while I know my machine isn't guaranteed to stay malware free, I also know that additional protection won't guarantee anything either.