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by Warren Contreras Old Retired Guy
Warren Contreras 
Old Retired Guy
Even if you think your anti-spyware and anti-virus is up to date, you still run the risk of getting infected every time you surf the Internet. UNLESS you have a special computer like mine. I bought a Dell laptop for parts from Ebay for $21.50 with no hard drive or CD, but it still works. Then I loaded Linux on a USB stick and plugged it in. Now I can surf to my hearts content and the bad guys can't touch my Windows!!! Since it's a laptop, I can sit in front of the TV and click away.
Nov 16th 2012 10:08
Old Retired GuyEven if you think your anti-spyware and anti-virus is up to date, you still run the risk of getting infected every time you surf the Internet. UNLESS you have a special computer like mine. I bought a Dell laptop for parts from Ebay for $21.50 with no hard drive or CD, but it still works. Then I loaded Linux on a USB stick and plugged it in. Now I can surf to my hearts content and the bad guys can't touch my Windows!!! Since it's a laptop, I can sit in front of the TV and click away.
Nov 16th 2012 10:08
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Warren Contreras
Old Retired GuyBruce I don't deny that only a fool would think any protection would shield you from evil forces forever but the point is to keep them from reaching my Windows computer and wreaking havoc on my ability to be productive. If they do manage to get through my Linux/Firefox combination, I can reformat the USB stick and start over in a few minutes. I have been through the agony of reinstalling Windows and losing files you don''t have backups for too many times. The distro I have on my new laptop is Browser Linux (a special flavor of Puppy Linux) because it is small and fast with a provision to easily save changes back to your USB stick for next time. Nov 17th 2012 07:46 1 Likes |
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Bruce Bates
  Cooperative marketingVery cool and again GREAT advice. I personally have an LFS (linux from scratch) custom build on cd :) by default cd is write protected so the only worries I have are people trying to install/run hardware flashes :) Nov 17th 2012 11:53 |
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Warren Contreras
Old Retired GuyYour CD may be write protected but it's running under Windows and your RAM memory is NOT. Nov 18th 2012 00:22 |
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Bruce Bates
Cooperative marketingIf I was running it under windows I would agree my friend. Like I said I am gree completely with everything you are saying. But I boot to my cd I don't run it under windows at all. Nov 18th 2012 01:00 |
Well I will admit you are a lot safer, but there are still evil things that can be done... sadly. But I agree linux is likely the best of protections against most threats :)
For anyone interested, you can do this from usb drive, sd card, cd, floppy disk, second harddrive, or any number of other ways. However for most users I would stick with either usb or cd :)
Great advice my friend! What distro are you using?
Nov 16th 2012 11:36 1 Likes