OT: New Virus?

[Jack Simth]

parabolize said:Many Debian based distros have easy installers (Ubuntu, Mepis, knoppix...)

I can't in good conscience call knoppix an install. I'm sorry, I just can't. I burned a knoppix disc - it "installs" by booting from the CD. When I'm done working with Linux for the day, I remove the CD from the drive, and reboot. About the only changes made to my machine are the ones I specifically told it to make. Knoppix runs from the CD; it doesn't really install to your machine. Quite the useful tool for your toolbox - almost no virus can touch a CD (espcecially if it isn't in a CD burner drive....) very little can attack linux anyway, and a virus that is on your windows system is unlikely to be able to deal with a linux boot. Very useful for cleaning up a system (provided, of course, that knoppix can write to it's hard drive format)