Dotan Cohen wrote:
I think that more people mould move away from WIndows if they read the notices on the microsoft website:And how does this differ from the warnings against logging into Linux as ROOT? The only difference that I see is in the fact that most malicious web content is (at the moment) directed at Windows. Don't get me wrong; I carry no love for Microsquat or for Windows, but if you are going to criticise, at least pick an issue which doesn't apply to both sides. As my buddy Joe Friday used to say, "Only the names were changed to protect the guilty."
"The simple act of visiting an Internet site can be extremely damaging to the system"
from: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/windows_security_whynot_admin.mspx
Important to note that the article quoted's purpose is to convince the user to create and use a standard account, and not the system's default Administrator account. What this means is that the system's default beaviour is to make the simple act of visiting an internet site extremely damaging to the system. Why on earth would people use such an OS?
Cheers,
Gordon Keehn
