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Is Google Chrome secure enough?
An off topic question, but do you think Google Chrome is secure enough? I have been using IE for years, and I, like others, am starting to see more articles and such of how IE is basically falling behind...considerably. I have Chrome on here, and it's up to date, but I am somewhat apprehensive in using it to do things like online shopping. What do you think? I don't have Firefox. I tried it a few years back and did not like it at all. But, with regard to that, how is Firefox with security? What would YOU choose to do sensitive things like shopping and paying bills and such?
Thanks for the help.
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- Gabe Gabe Gabe!!! Anti Virus is not needed with Linux Mint nothing can be installed without you telling it, "it is OK" There is AntiVirus in the Software Manager that scans email both in and out AVAST is one but all they are needed for is so you don't pass a Virus with Email to a Windows User.
Start using Mint for everything you do and only go to Windows when necessary soon you will find yourself not using Windows very much at all if not ever. I was the same at first but soon discovered Mint can do it if Window can do it. There may be some software that you use that has no Linux alternative but soon you will find out a workaround that works just fine.
You can install a .deb and other files with archive manager. As far as other programs there are thousands in the Software Manager and Synaptic is there for upgrades. So Gabe use it then all of a sudden you'll say, "Humm? Wonder if I should check on my Windows partition it has been a while." - Gabe,
As long as ROOT access is well secured, Linux is VERY secure. Some distros don't even give root access to the administrator except by the use of the sudo cmd. Passwords are "shadowed" so even access to the sudoers file is protected. - I have no clue as to what any of that means. LOL. I don't know what a .deb file is, either. A file clerk named Deborah? I'm at a loss when it comes to tech talk.
- Hi Chris,
Many people like Chrome and I agree with you in respect to IE but to me Chrome is too invasive.
Don :) - Bottom Line:
Linux is Very secure! - How exactly? Because you can login using your google account? I have all control over what it accesses. Haven't had a problem.
- If you use it you will know if you don't then you wont. It is like the movie, "If you build it they will come."
- I beginning to get that. LOL.
- I don't know of anyone else who has had any problems either.
I know some "Die-Hard" Chrome advocates.
It's just a case where I don't care for it. It "calls home" like Windows10. Honestly, I never mastered it so perhaps you have "tamed" it. I do use it, but you have to understand that I don't know any of this stuff. No one ever explained why it's more secure, they always just said "it's more secure." I can say that Gen 4 is better than the legacy plans, but it doesn't make it so unless I explain why. You did that. I appreciate the explanation.
And when I say "they," I don't mean the people on here, I just mean people from past questions.
