XP machines used by inexperienced people are the main backbone of botnets.
Call me a zealot, but if everyone was using Linux - as user - this simply wouldn't be happening. The Linux platform is hostile to both the installation and propagation of worms and malware. The argument that there are no Linux viruses because nobody bothers to write them is ancient nonsensical FUD btw.
Maybe everyone should dual boot... use your fave apps in offline Windows and surf with Linux. Best of both worlds.
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