helterskelter808

To be fair, one of the security issues with Windows is people run as Administrator, rather than as a limited user. Having said that, when seeing a popup about whether they want to run a program, most people will probably just click OK anyway.

And after being infected with a very severe "virus" a while back, without doing anything other than visiting a site via Google images (not even porn), and with Malwarebytes and Windows "Defender" installed and running, I was left with having to format and re-install C:\. I decided instead to stop using Windows altogether and just stick to Linux.

I'm a very careful, paranoid and savvy computer user, who avoids 'dodgy' websites and have never had a problem until recently, but these days I believe Windows is simply not safe to use even when browsing the web. Lots of innocent sites are hacked and infected with bad code.

One of the funny things after I started using Linux all the time is, I have visited "virus" laden sites which depict a "scan" of your PC and report "viruses" found. It's funny seeing it "scanning" drives and folders that don't even exist, and a reminder that if I'd still been using Windows it would have been time for yet another re-install.

BTW, it's simply not true that Linux (and Unix based Macs) are safer because less people use it, so it's less of a target. Linux/Unix is by far the popular/common server operating system in the world.

Edit: to be fair, the kind of person running a server should be (but isn't necessarily) more clued up than a desktop user, plus people who use Linux probably are more likely to be nerds and more aware of security or dangers.