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	shallimus	2010-11-12 , 17:57
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Originally Posted by James_Littler

Ok I'll rephrase.

Firewall could be advantageous but I've not seen one for the N900.

Antivirus is avaliable for linux systems for a reason obviously, but I'm assuming (and therefore may be wrong) but aren't most viruses/malware compiled for x86? We therefore, do not need to worry so much.

Broadly speaking you're right, but it would be a shame if someone saw your original post and thought that Linux was totally bulletproof.

Also: please accept my apology for having cried "Fail" - I had already edited my post to be less snarky. It's true, we don't need to worry so much as Windows users.

N.B. x86 is an instruction set (language the CPU speaks) and a hardware thing. Windows (32-bit editions) and the Linux installed on your desktop (32-bit) PC are both compiled to run on x86 architecture.

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Last edited by shallimus; 2010-11-12 at 18:00.

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