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rjwilcox 03-19-2009 02:38 PM

Thank you for a great community
 
Cheers,
I have been running Linux for about on two years but still consider myself somewhat of a newbie. Several years ago, I started using openSUSE but switched back to XP when I got a job in a new city and my family needed to stay in the old city to sell the house and pack everything... I believed that I was going to have to remote into the family (Windows XP) PC so I switched back to XP. About six months later and after the family moved to the new city, I planned to return to Linux but did not have the time nor did I want to hear the complaints from my family. Then one day, I accidentally left the PC on over night with nothing but my gmail account open. I had the firewall and all the 'anti' software running but the next morning, I found that I had numerous spyware issues just by leaving the PC on. That day, I switched the PC back to Linux. I installed openSUSE but my kids complained that some of their favorite websites were not working; I needed to install Java and Flash. Not having the time to add the software to openSUSE, I installed Linux Mint. All the computers are now running. The main PC is running Mint and I recently changed back to openSUSE on two pc because of network issues with Mint 6. The network issues were online video would not run correctly; specifically, my son likes to go to USANetwork.com and watch Burn Notice. Additionally, I replace Mint 6 with openSUSE on my laptop because I am having issues connecting to my churches wifi. I have a thread on this issue here -http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/connect-to-specific-wifi-712908/

Well, that is me and my Linux story so far.

Bob

TuxSurfer 03-20-2009 02:26 PM

Are you sure one of your kids wasn't surfing where he shouldn't have? One does not get spyware just by leaving a computer on, especially with anti-virus and anti-spyware and a firewall running. Stick with Linux and your patience will be rewarded. Crawl these threads, search for answers first and ask well thought out questions and you will find this community is very helpful.

Welcome to LQ! :)


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