Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:There is no way to say this without sounding snide, and I hope
that
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Quoted message said:Quoted message said:do not actually mean to be snide when I say: that's why I use an
operating system other than Windows, have never owned a Windows
computer and never will. Windows is not an operating system, it
is a security risk.
While I'm a user of Window XP, I'm certainly not a Microsoft
apologist; but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and
quacks like a duck...
As a former developer of operating systems, to me Windows XP
displays all the symptoms. :-)
Also, whatever OS Tim is using is also a security risk. Just not
one currently targeted en masse by h@xor5.
Not the wide open hopeless mess that Redmond's finest have foisted off
on an unsuspecting public, with major security flaws in every
application as well as the OS itself. Some of the applications have
security flaws that are problematic even when their software is run in
a non-Windows OS! The lame claim that Microsoft's market share is the
reason it's targeted is [censored]- it's targeted because it's easy.
My OS is not targeted mainly because it's far more secure and the
warez kiddies aren't smart enough to figure it out (and the serious
people have better things to do). There's an installed user base in
the tens of millions.
BTW there have been several thousand attempts made on my computer over
the past four years that it's been serving Web pages. My firewall and
NIDS track it all and thus far have provided complete security.
However, putting it behind another router, which was done to share my
Internet connection with my home LAN, seems to have stopped most of
the attempts in their tracks as they are on closed ports that are not
forwarded. The only attempts that get through now are on port 80, of
course, as it's the only open port on the computer and the only NAT
forwarded port through the router.
Of course, this is always a moving target, and today's secure OS may
be ripped wide open tomorrow.