Comment Re:Are Computer Crooks Renting Out Your PC? (Score 1) 208
I'll agree with you straight up on Firefox addons as well as Flash and Acrobat which are in the repos. However my experience (ymmv) with users on Linux is that if your smart enough to Sudo install software your smart enough to protect yourself and verify your sources. The average home user won't use the command line to install software, if its not in the repositories.
If I remember correctly, Ubuntu by default is set to pop up the update manager daily. I think they do some updates automatically in the background as well, but I couldn't swear to it.
As I said, I'm not claiming Linux to be unhackable... just that there are some legitimate areas where it is by default more secure. I'll also admit that MS is making great progress with their newer systems and we can hope that this trend continues.