Use a Live-cd then for online banking.

Don't install anything from outside the best repositories. As close to zero chance of an issue as is possible. You start packaging nonsense that isn't "approved" You B on your own.When something says " the same pkg is available in the repos." LISTEN up.

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ANY OS can get malware. Windows is targeted not only because it is most prevalent but because it is so easy. Microsoft has historically done a terrible job with security by making the only user "root" and that horror that was Internet Explorer. That has changed considerably but Windows still has a plethora of security issues because the code is closed and there are far fewer eyes on it, plus the company is in it for money so deadlines and daily build schedules push people that work there very hard. Also, being a very popular platform, it is trivial to phish an end user and trick them into installing malware.

If a Linux system is run properly, as in the end user not being root, then the OS itself is less susceptible to viruses, but the end user data under /home is still vulnerable because the biggest attack vector (browsers) run in the context of the user account.

Having said all that, I don't run antivirus on my FreeBSD workstation. I do intend to run a file validation process so I can tell if something changed that I did not change or trigger to change.

10 year old thread folks.

Not saying that current comments are incorrect, however please consider that the conversation may be long over.

Guilty as charged, that always gets me, sorry! I need to pay better attention to not only the titles but the OP first post date....

Apparently it is not possible with this software, but I have seen message board software that puts the date the thread was started right next to the author's name. Useful, one would think.

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I see now: it's above the OP's name. I just glanced at the title. No worries.

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Once you open the thread, yes, but not on the index page when you are looking through a forum.

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What the forum software does for threads which have not had activity in the last 6 months or longer is that it does not have the Quick Reply ability, you need to click the "Post Reply" button.

When you do this, there is a red/bold statement shown above the box where you're typing your reply:Which people either still don't notice, or don't read+heed.

Nothing crazy, we've all awakened very old discussions inadvertently, and once it's been bumped, it's harder to notice because it obviously is now showing as a recent thread. And there are also reasons to awaken old discussions purposefully.

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