James Dean made a name for himself in the 1950's movie, "Rebel Without a Cause." In the past almost four years I've been determined to show that Linux and in particular Ubuntu Linux is a viable desktop operating system. I've proven it to myself time and again but still it remains an outlier in consumer circles. In the last week I've rebuilt three Windows computers that had been virtually destroyed by malware. In two of the three cases the individuals let their virus protection lapse, in the third the lady was using a well known anti-virus and security solution and she still was victimized.