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After 3 years of dual-booting (Windows-Xandros, Windows-PCLinuxOS, Windows-UbuntuME), I migrated fully to Ubuntu yesterday. I did it because a day before yesterday, my Windows XP was infected with some Trojan Horse and malware after downloading some files from the net. They disturbed my Windows Explorer - my desktop environment kept blinking on and off. I could run applications from the Task Manager, but accessing my folders and files were almost impossible.

I had to screen my computer with Spybot Search & Destroy, which found the culprit. As I saw it running in my memory, deleting the files manually will not eradicate the malware. I was surprised that my AntiVir did not able to detect it (I used free version).

So what I did was logged out, boot into my Ubuntu, and deleted the files from Ubuntu. As usual, the files were situated inside C:Windows\system32.

When I restart my Windows, Spybot did a good job by running a scan before the malware were loaded into the memory. Luckily, it did not found it anymore as I have deleted it from Ubuntu.

At about the same time, I found out about IEs4Linux, a Linux application that could run Internet Explorer in Linux using Wine. For your information, the only thing that avoided me from fully migrating to Ubuntu years earlier was because I still need to use IE to submit my patient’s claim through third party electronic medical service provider, in particular ING, FOMEMA, Metronics I-Care and Mediclinic.

I don’t know why, they all need me to use IE to submit my claims. But after getting more confidence with IEs4Linux, I just did it - I wiped out both partition in my notebook, Windows & UbuntuME - and installed Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS cleanly into it. I received Hardy Heron’s DVD with Linux For You magazine June 2008 edition.

I was really surprised when it automatically downloaded a driver for my wireless card, without the need of me to look for it. Now I have to admit that Ubuntu is the No.1 Linux distro for desktop user.

Oh, good bye XP…

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