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Is Your OS Tough Enough?
LE UI Guy writes "A Denver Post article examines the Internet 'horrors' Windows, Mac and Linux users face simply being connected to the Internet with only an out-of-box configuration. Over the course of a single week the machines were scanned 46,255 times. The test didn't look into additional security threats caused by surfing the web or reading e-mail, just the connection itself."
Like a good parent, I beat my OS until it's skin is thick and it responds to barked commands.
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If you build it, they will come.
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and count the seconds before it becomes a spam relay.
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I got stuck in the self-checkout line at Walmart once, behind a lady who had this same problem.
"He who throws mud, loses ground." - proverb
TFA tells us that Windows XP SP2 is more secure than Windows XP SP1 (unbelievable!!) and that there are fewer attackers targeting Linux and MacOS than Windows (hmmm - I wonder why ?).
Very thought provoking and innovative information indeed.
I was on a warez site last week looking for some serial numbers um.. i miss placed. anyway the amount of crap that was installed onto my win98se firefox box was incrediable. after uninstalling at least 4 pieces of spyware i had 860 odd errors in my registry.. lovely!
serenity now!
Imagine a reality show based on this...
"Coming up, we'll have Windows eat a big bowl of fried portscans!!!"
*circus music*
"And after the break, Linux will jump off of the gigantic Mount Exploit!"
*dark piano music*
(Reality check): It would probably fall off the air for requiring someone to think, though...
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
From what I remember in Tron, this visually looks very cool. Digital warriors fighting on a neon grid, etc.
I'm pretty stumped, though. I tried to get my box pwned eight times, just to see the digital battle. I thought at the least Norton Antivirus would sent a digital probe destroyer bot out to eradicate the trojans. But all that happened was my computer got really slow, and pop-ups kept showing up, advertising herbal virility pills for men.
Come to think of it, Hollywood movies never seem to match up with what my computer does. That's it, I'm going to stop believing them movies and start reading Wikipedia instead.
Bet no attacks would bother a BeOS box! Seriously though, these tests are still pretty much bull. It's like leaving the keys in the ignition of an unlocked Lexus, in the bad part of town, then being shocked when someone takes it...
Face it, do something enough times, and it can cause problems.
"Honey pot" experiment shows unprotected Windows SP 1 at risk
Any version of Windows with any amount of service packs and/or updates is a scary thing to be online with. It's like having a grenade launcher in close-quarter combat. Boom.
With quotes like:
"Microsoft is racing to roll out its new Longhorn operating system in 2006.
But for the moment, it's sticking with Windows, for which it rolled out a new patch Tuesday."
I don't think so.
Microsoft might have something with Windows Longhorn, since the entire API outside of the kernel will be written in C# completely sandboxed in a CLR, much like Java.
Combined with a monolithic auto-update system, Microsoft has no intentions of repeating the problems of Windows 2000/XP when they release Longhorn, much like they had no intention of repeating the problems of stability they had with Windows 95/98/ME when they designed Windows 2000/XP. For as much as they do, they mostly won with stability in 2000/XP, and they could win again, despite their market share, by sacrificing RAM (480MB commit charge, 1GB recommended) and processing power by implementing the .NET framework for their entire API.
I honestly hope open source has something to compete for their future desktop environments, or else desktop Linux could be relegated to processors too slow to deal with the overhead.
- - - - - Fear not the reaper, but my shiny white teeth.
From TFA: "Experts say spyware programs are also necessary for Windows users. Microsoft is offering a free beta version of its spyware program at www.microsoft.com/athome , and Webroot is offering its spyware program free to Colorado residents through April 15 at www.webroot.com Free spyware programs are available at www.download.com"
Of course Claria/Gator is also offering a free version of their spyware program, and it's not beta - it's an official, stable release, available to users from all over the world, and with no date limits!!
There are also other known spyware providers out there, all you have to do is to search the web for some pr0n and warez, and there you go.
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Windows XP with Service Pack 1 was attacked 4,857 times and only infected once!
Windows XP with Service Pack 1 dynamically adapted to become immune to further attacks by the Blaster and Sasser worms in only 18 minutes!
Within one hour Windows XP with Service Pack 1 had apprised the situation and chosen to join the winning side!
Windows XP with Service Pack 1 single handedly fought 1600x as many viral foes as its nearest competitor! Yet it bravely continues to withstand the onslaught of its most cunning viral foe, the GPL!
The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Windows XP... Be assured, Windows XP is safe, protected. Microsofties are heroes.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
"Free spyware programs are available at www.download.com"
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