A few words on Malware

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  KenJackson

  Interesting. The article says,

  ...if you think your computer is infected and your anti-virus can't find any malware. Wipe your C: dirve and start over.

  That's good advice if you make a backup image every few days during your whole life, and if you know how to restore it, and (if you use Windows) if Microsoft's attempts to stop piracy don't thwart your legitimate efforts. At that point the best advice might be to just switch to #-Link-Snipped-#.
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  Nayan Goenka

  KenJackson

  Interesting. The article says,
  That's good advice if you make a backup image every few days during your whole life, and if you know how to restore it, and (if you use Windows) if Microsoft's attempts to stop piracy don't thwart your legitimate efforts. At that point the best advice might be to just switch to #-Link-Snipped-#.

  Its not easy to simply wipe your partitions if you get affected. It is a whole lot tedious process. And every computer has some virus in it which remains undetected by your anti virus programs and cleaning C is not a solution to them.
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  vikaskumar11233

  KenJackson

  Interesting. The article says,
  That's good advice if you make a backup image every few days during your whole life, and if you know how to restore it, and (if you use Windows) if Microsoft's attempts to stop piracy don't thwart your legitimate efforts. At that point the best advice might be to just switch to Linux.

  Wiping the whole partition is not easy. If someone is having priceless data in his/her system then even an unexpected shutdown threatens him.
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  KenJackson

  vikaskumar11233

  Wiping the whole partition is not easy. If someone is having priceless data in his/her system then even an unexpected shutdown threatens him.

  Why would a sensible person trust priceless data to the most attacked and compromised OS on the planet? It would be much smarter to use some Linux distro or The FreeBSD Project in the first place.
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  vikaskumar11233

  KenJackson

  Why would a sensible person trust priceless data to the most attacked and compromised OS on the planet? It would be much smarter to use some Linux distro or The FreeBSD Project in the first place.

  There are few disadvantages of using Linux:
  -It is not an Operating system, It is just a kernel
  - basic windows Software are not available to be used on Linux.
  - Many Linux create problem in detecting hardware.
  
  So I think that why a man will use Linux, only to protect his data and not to do anything on that.
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  Abhishek Rawal

  vikaskumar11233

  There are few disadvantages of using Linux:
  -It is not an Operating system, It is just a kernel

  There are 452+ Linux based OS (also known as distributions)
  
  

  vikaskumar11233

  - basic windows Software are not available to be used on Linux.

  WineHQ - Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
  
  

  vikaskumar11233

  - Many Linux create problem in detecting hardware.

  That was correct in 2000's ,but in current scenario every latest hardware is supported by Linux. Infact, Linux Kernel supports more hardwares than what Windows Kernel is capable of.
  Linux-Drivers.org - Your guide in the world of operating systems and technology