As OS means a commercial/free software that actually operates our PC, it is absurd to pay additional money for anti-virus software after installing any. Worse, we sometimes pay annually for Norton, etc. In the sense, here comes the best thing about Ubuntu: It actually prevent my precious data against virus for free of charge! If you use your home computer and occasionally leave it before 9 am, the cron script below will save you much time to even think about updating your security. First type below in a terminal.

$ sudo crontab -e

Copy and pate the command line below:

0 9 * * * /usr/bin/aptitude -y update && /usr/bin/aptitude -y full-upgrade && /usr/bin/aptitude -y autoclean && /sbin/shutdown -P now

Every 9 am, this command will update online DB of the software installed in your Ubuntu machine, update some of them, clean any unused files, and subsequently shutdown your machine.

For example, my legacy laptop benefits much from this automatic update, because the occasional update slows down my Ubuntu. Every evening I come back home, my old slow machine is already updated up-to-date and secure.
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