Hi Ingo,
It's just a guess but I think the people who move from Windows to Linux because of the security problems with worms, dialers, spyware etc. (and I've seen several state this as their reason) will get into the same problems if they don't change their ways of operating the PC. It's not directed at the original poster, more a general comment.
Linux (any Unix like system for that matter) makes it very easy to NOT run the entire session as administrator. To NOT have dozens of services listening to all present net devices. To NOT be as vulnerable as possible when using the default configuration of your browser/ mailer. If you just switch over but then work as root all the time, don't disable the services you don't need, don't install security patches and disable any security settings of the programs you use regularly in order to keep your "windows habits", you didn't gain anything in my opinion. And even if it might be hard to work as normal user under Windows or to disable all that services that listen for incoming connections, this doesn't mean that it has to be hard doing this on linux. In fact it's easy, you only need to find out how to do it once. And it's pretty comfortable as well
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