> -----Original Message----- > From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:28 PM > To: tomas@xxxxxxx; For users of Fedora > Subject: Re: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat > > Tomas Larsson wrote: > >>> > >>> So I simly don't buy that you get infected first time you > >> are connected. > >> > >> You don't today - or you don't see it because the viruses are more > >> stealthy and designed to spread slowly and remain undetected while > >> permitting remote control of the machines to send spam or > participate > >> in an occasional DDOS attack. A few years back an unprotected, > >> unpatched box would be hit by something in a couple of > minutes on a > >> random internet address. The 2003 slammer worm was > probably the most > >> dramatic of the bunch, practically knocking out the internet. > >> It sent UDP packets out of RAM as fast as the machine > could generate > >> them. > >> > >> > > > > Well, obviously I have missed it, Been on the net since mid 90's, > > before Win95, using 3.11 and on DSL since end 90's. > > Allways been using AW-SW though, currently NAW. > > > > So I wonder, Why has not any of my boxes ever been infected > since it > > is said to be so easy to infect Windows. > > > > Well, the answer is, I think, It is not so easy, unless you > are very > > very very stupid. > > Unfortunately there is a lot of people out there that is very very > > very very stupid, just take look on all these scams, > nigeria letters etc. > > Are saying these guys are stupid? > http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=49857 > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > I'm not saying that Windows by any means are safer than other OS, but its not more un-safe either. Obviously since there is more systems out there, compared to Linux, there ought to be more problem's. What I'm saying that any-one that runs an unprotected computer despite all media coverage is stupid, he or she cannot blame the OS if he or she opens a virusinfected mail. The same goes for installing software that in best case is unstable and in worst case..... People seems to blame everything on the OS, when they buy some cheap noname addon-cards with drivers that makes an havoc in the system. Obviously that does not happen in the LINUX world, basically because those no-name manufacturers does not target the linux community and subsequently there is no drivers, and you don't install it, hence no problems. Obviously there must be flaws in any OS/SW even Linux, as an example my FC4-server was rooted, due to a flaw in php/MySQL. I ended up with a complete re-install, if it was a windows-system, first of all, it wouldn't probably happen, since my AW would have taken care of it, plus the fact that I would have managed to remove it without re-installing, So in a sence Linux is far much more complicated to restore, compared to Windows XP. 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
