No. Just teach him the basics of "e-mail auditing" (e.g. don't open things from people you don't know) and to always backup important files. These two things are key to avoiding nasty computer problems, do that and things will almost always be fine. On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 16:45, Michael Havens wrote: > Hey all, I have a friend that is scared of using Linux because he doesn't have > a virus/worm scan protecting it. Does he need to worry? -- Eric Katherman