sundialsvcs |
10-26-2006 10:39 AM |
An anti-Microsoft site? It's been done ...
These "security" companies ought to be sweating bullets anyway, because .. - their products are just-as-likely to be the hole through which a virus enters.
- the only truly effective way to stop a virus is to structure system such that ordinary user programs do not have permission to run highly-privileged tasks.
Let's face it: Windows is vulnerable because everyone runs as an Administrator. Don't have to, they just do.
Microsoft isn't going to keep letting Apple sit there saying that "Windows has 114,000 viruses and we have none." Believe me, they can't afford to. Words like this (from http://www.apple.com/getamac/viruses.html) don't help McAfee's position either:
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Connecting a PC to the Internet using factory settings is like leaving your front door wide open with your valuables out on the coffee table. A Mac, on the other hand, shuts and locks the door, hides the key, and stores your valuables in a safe with a combination known only to you. You have to buy, configure, and maintain such basic protection on a PC.
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I suspect that Microsoft has (finally) given those "security" companies their travelling papers. What we Linux-oids have known for a bunch of years has finally become a competitive issue. (And oh by the way, have you compared Apple's market performance to Microsoft's... lately?)
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