> -----Original Message----- > From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:41 PM > To: tomas@xxxxxxx; For users of Fedora > Subject: Re: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat > > Tomas Larsson wrote: > > > > My experience: > [...] > > The rumour that XP is unreliable etc, is just a rumour. > > I have never been infected with a viruus on my XP-boxes, however I > > have been rooted once on my FC-boxes. > > Obviously it was my own fault, forgot about an old phpBB > installation > > on a public webserver. > > You must be very young, very firewalled, or very lucky - or > your machines all came pre-installed with some service pack > level. There was a point when if you installed a fresh XP or > win2k the odds were that you would be hit by a virus before > you cold get the service packs installed over the internet. > > > The so-called problem with Windows is, I think, that there > are so much > > crap software out there, that people install without any > thoughts at > > all, plus the fact that people use quite a lot of cracked > sw, with no > > clue what's in it. > > That's only a small part of the problem. There have been > dozens of possible exploits within IE, so all it takes is > visiting a site that triggers it. Likewise, many of the > outlook exploits did not require that you open the message. > > > I use XP because it gets the work done, with a minimum of > work, I dont > > want to spend days trying to figure out on how to read from a CD or > > weeks to figure out why my network-card does not work. > > That has to more to do with buying a machine with a > preinstalled OS than which OS it is. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > I have never bought any box pre-installed except laptops. I always by my boxes as parts, assembling them myself. I never use OEM-SW neither on XP nor W2K. The latest laptop I got, was pre-installed with XP-Home, I ditched that, reformated the drive and installed XP-PRO. Furthermore I don't use any SW-firewalls, except on the laptop I carry with me, since I connect up wherever i find a WiFi spot avaible. I have never been infected with virus, when connecting to the net for the first updates, not even when using one of the original pre-SP1 CD's. Not even running in front of my firewall. Yes I use a firewall, before it was an old AMD-K6 with RH9, now it is an P2-400 with FC5, using gShield script. I have never used a dedicated firewall, probably by habit, since they were so expensive onece upon a time, and a scrap P1-160 with RH7/9 was a cheaper solution. So I simly don't buy that you get infected first time you are connected. With best regards Tomas Larsson Sweden http://www.tlec.se http://www.ebaman.com Excellent and cheap hosting, use http://www.servage.net/?coupon=cust23962 Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem
