Dear ,
Thank you for antix.One question is sitting in my brain : Is it safe to use antix in internet? I am a student and I am searching books and information for writing homeworks , so can I download viruses , trojan , rootkit and another unknown way which should use my PC or crash my PC and another dislike problem?
What can I do for keeping secure ?

Iceweasel, as it is set up, will prevent over 99 percent of these items from getting onto your computer. And if you only download from known good sites, you will have no problems.

Linux, which is based on Unix, was set up as a secure operating system. It is next to impossible to make modifications WITHOUT permission. And since each machine that uses Linux has its own password for the users, it is IMPOSSIBLE to figure them out. Unless you are one of those people who use items like"God","Boss","Master","ABCD", or"1234" as passwords. (Damn, I used my password for my luggage.)

Also, most viruses/spyware are targetted at Microsoft Windows users.
Nearly all servers that you will access on the internet run a form of 'unix', be that Linux, BSD, or a commercial variety.

N.B. If you use a live version, everything is discarded when you shut down, so no chance to carry anything over to your next session.

@fatmac I installed antix on my harddisk.So can you give recommendation? And I am using torrent only for downloading books.

fatmac is right...Most servers do use Unix or linux for running their system. However, the files that they transfer, either direct or through torrents, usually go piggy-back. The files are never touched by the operating system. The operating system meerly moves the files from point A to point B.

Very few people ever try to add a virus or trojan to a linux file. WHY? Because the community has 1- too many people using the files either on a Live distro and will report any erros almost immediately, and 2- any author caught sending files like this will be banned from the servers.

AntiX is safe.

About the only thing you might be tempted to do is use the 'root' user account - don't.
Always surf from a 'normal' user account.
Using a Linux or BSD Operating System will keep you safe, 99.9999999% of the time.

Also antiX comes complete with"Advert Block" which utilises a"hosts file" to block all known parasites.

See
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm"
linktext was:"http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm"
====================================
for information on"hosts files".

Applications/preferences/advert-block starts this utility up.

I was testing online games for awhile, and some of the unfinished, or poorly written scripts. I would get would be the demise of Windows OS, whereas with Linux the worst that happened, was when I opened the the web browse that I was using the desktop would crash, sending me back to my log-in screen. After using Bleachbit to cleanup the browser, everything was back to normal. What I like about Linux everything is well controlled , if you do pick something up from the web, it's easy removed, and it dose not effect the operating system.

Oh yes, and don't forget antix comes with a firewall, but you have to switch it on, which is done through applications/internet/firewall configuration. The basic configuration of deny in/allow out is pretty effective for normal use.

Windows viruses have no effect on Linux because the transport mechanisms they are designed to operate on simply do not exist in Linux. It is possible to host a windows virus infected file on a Linux machine with no harm done to the machine, so in a sense, Linux is immune to windows viruses, but that doesn't mean Linux is totally immune to viruses because there are viruses designed for Linux. Linux viruses have to be physically planted onto a machine by a dedicated cracker and these types usually go after very busy and poorly maintained web and email servers because regular desktop machines usually have nothing to offer them.

I spoke to a cisco architect a month back who had to repair such an infiltration. The web and email server had been poorly maintained for close to 2 years and security updates had not been applied to the package that was damaged, yet it still took the cracker 8 days of intense hacking before he successfully cracked the system and started to interrupt the websites and email accounts hosted on that machine. The architect was able to track the source of the infiltration and it led to an Australian security agency, who were most likely just doing an audit of servers hosted on a server farm.

(hackers are the good guys, crackers are the bad people, which is why I used the term crackers above)

So what we're saying here is you're pretty safe as a Linux desktop user, much, much safer than a Windows user, and then there's java ...... __{{emoticon}}__