News that Linux is often more secure than Microsoft Windows is hardly news to anyone, but recently I had this driven home in a painful manner. I've rebuilt many Windows XP and Vista machines in the past five or six years and almost all of them were from customers who had virus protection and in some cases spyware protections in place, but some how or other code got executed in the operating system that came from a website. I think I've been fair and compassionate in my pricing and some have even given me more money than I billed them and left contented because I saved their data.