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RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:22:17 +0000 (GMT)
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Scott Morris wrote:
So when the majority of people begin using a different operating system, is there some reason that the majority of virus-writers or other malcontents wouldn't focus on the flaws there? Or are we stuck in this little bubble thinking that unix REALLY is THAT secure? Perhaps it is, but my viewpoint is that it's really shortsighted to make this assumption. Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean that it can't. Wolves go where the sheep are plentiful and less protected. As they
it has happened: iis/sadmin worm 2001-may apache-scalper worm l10n worm morris-sendmail-extravaganza current-ssh-exploit-fun there are others of course... it's not the OS that matters in the long run, it's the administration of that OS (or so it seems to me, admittedly not a sysadmin though, anymore). Sure, initial/default installs might be problematic in one/all OS's, but by and large extended lifetimes on a live/hostile network means patches must be applied. Seems like that doesn't happen by and large. -Chris
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- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Larry Smith (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Charles Cala (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Robert E. Seastrom (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Alexei Roudnev (Dec 20)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Scott Morris (Dec 19)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Scott Weeks (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Adrian Chadd (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Matthew S. Hallacy (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Adrian Chadd (Dec 21)