@Indian-Art
"Lets avoid this by using the safe and secure UBUNTU"
Hmmm, somehow, as bad as Windows is, and as bad as IE is, given the list below, I might just consider switching to an unpatched XP running IE6 out of box, with no firewall and no anti-virus, it's more attractive than this.
http://lwn.net/Alerts/Ubuntu/
Recent Ubuntu security alerts
(1013 alerts total)
ID Package Date
USN-887-1 libthai 2010-01-18
USN-886-1 pidgin 2010-01-18
USN-884-1 openssl 2010-01-14
USN-885-1 transmission 2010-01-14
USN-882-1 php5 2010-01-13
USN-883-1 network-manager-applet 2010-01-13
USN-881-1 krb5 2010-01-12
USN-878-1 firefox-3.5 2010-01-08
USN-877-1 firefox-3.0 2010-01-08
USN-880-1 gimp 2010-01-07
USN-879-1 krb5 2010-01-06
USN-876-1 postgresql-8.1, postgresql-8.3, postgresql-8.4 2010-01-04
USN-875-1 redhat-cluster, redhat-cluster-suite 2009-12-18
USN-873-1 firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9 2009-12-18
USN-874-1 firefox-3.5, xulrunner-1.9.1 2009-12-18
USN-870-1 pygresql 2009-12-11
USN-871-1
it's endless.