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How to Secure Your Computer

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Linux is widely considered one of the most secure operating systems around. On a basic level, Linux is built from the ground up to be fundamentally sound, and it forces users to work with security in mind. For instance, it enforces the system of ordinary users who are limited in what they can do, thus making it harder for security breaches like virus infections to occur.

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(2007). How to Secure Your Computer. In: Beginning Ubuntu Linux. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0191-5_9

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