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bugs

by Dawn Kershaw Sep 24, 2009 9:57AM PDT

I have ubunto 8.04 lenux, and bugs. I am very new to this. I had under advice to download the AVG anti virus, but with my own research, found it to not only be impossible to to activate, but learned that there were over 300 parameters that i had to tweak, so i dumped the file, and uploaded Kaspersky for lenux. My question is, how do I activate the installed download, and how do I know if it's working ?. My gugs are not at the critical stage YET, gut getting very close and are moking it almost imposible to surf..
Thanks, Dawn

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I'm new to it too, but ......I am pleased so far....

by out_fisherman Sep 24, 2009 2:57PM PDT

Having been running it dual-boot mode on my
machine, I cannot help but be impressed.
Internet performance is MUCH quicker -
Mozilla Firefox is much faster, and in
general my computers performance is much
quicker than with Windows. No more clicking
on an icon and wondering if the system "got it" -

Don't worry about AVG - you don't need it
with Linux - for all the reasons outlined
in the following link :

http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/

I'm ready to dump Windows altogether if I
can just get this ONE certain app working -
then it's good-bye Microsoft !!

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Linux is not windows

by white-bread Sep 25, 2009 5:27PM PDT

You don't need an anti-virus for Linux. Firewall rules and file permissions.
Get rid of the kapersky for Linux and do the following steps.
Learn the use and values of: chmod and chown.
Use synaptic to install noscript to firefox or iceweasel.
Try not to use the sudo command too much. If you do, be sure that all permissions end after the execution of each command.
Why don't you post the list of bugs here or better yet: post the bugs at the ubuntuforums.

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