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My laptop is set up for a dual boot to either windows or Ubuntu. If I do nothing it times out and goes to Windows but if I select Ubuntu it goes there. If you already have Windows and are familiar with it, the various Linux based products can be confusing. They simply do not operate the same way so what you expect to happen when you do something may not be what happens. Actually the Linux OSs are not virus resistant to any real extent but very few people writing a virus code bother with Linux because so few people use it. If you want to be a hero to other virus writers, you need to cause lots of folks trouble. Its hard to do that on a platform that is not as widely used. Similar claims are made for the Apple OS for a similar reason. Nobody bothers to write a virus that will affect so few machines.