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Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories
From: "Doug White" <doug () clickdoug com>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:50:07 -0500
: : I put the blame not on the AV vendors but strictly on MS for building a : sieve. : : -Hank : I blame the miscreants who are malicious enough to want to cause as much damage as they can. MS software has tried for too long to be everything for everyone. For instance the SP2 for XP now being released even breaks some of the expensive MS applications, because they are learning to start turning stuff off, by default, and removing much of the backwards compatibility that leaves them so wide open for assault. It is a rare Linux box that has as much stuff installed and running at the same time as the average Windows box does. I have learned to ghost an image of the installed box, and burn it to DVD which makes it a no-brainer to rebuild a box that has gone south due to mis-use by the uninitiated.
Current thread:
- WashingtonPost computer security stories Sean Donelan (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Hank Nussbacher (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Owen DeLong (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Deepak Jain (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories David Lesher (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories John Underhill (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Sean Donelan (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Jerry Pasker (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 17)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Hank Nussbacher (Aug 15)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Doug White (Aug 15)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Henry Linneweh (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Mark Kasten (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Alexei Roudnev (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Sean Donelan (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) David Lesher (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Michael . Dillon (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Joel Jaeggli (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Richard Cox (Aug 17)