Quote Originally Posted by mry314 View Post
I'm running both Ubuntu (Jaunty) and XP with firefox, without any problem.
For the last couple of years this box had a partition with XP with the dual boot into Linux. Both with Firefox as the browser of choice. I prefer linux to windows but due to the proprietary nature I liked having it when I needed or wanted to use it. So one morning I booted up in XP to find my Avast anti virus non functional. Long story short I had picked up a virus last time out and it also disabled the XP protections. So I overwrote the partition and the hell with Windows. The instability to the linux began at roughly the same time so perhaps the no good SOB that sent the virus somehow corrupted my linux ? I don't know if that is possible. A friend who is a systems administrator with 30 years experience says no.