>Sorry, that's not the case. I'm not happy about this month's load of patches, but there are perfectly good patch management solutions out there that can manage multiple vendors and products with ease.
Please name one that is suitable for a "home" user with little or no technical ability to setup and use?
This is a major problem with the windows ecosystem. Staying on top is hard.
There are non-free apps in some of the multiverse repo's so yes, obviously they can.
In anycase, Anyone can add a custom repo to their sources.list and a valid signing key.
If the user had UAC disabled, they w/could have been owned. Being in the admin group on Vista shouldn't in itself allow a drive by to write files outside the user's home folders.
Same if you were running safari with sudo on OSX, or Firefox as root on Linux. Any user running as admin/root is a fool.
Of course, if the code you do run in your drive by download can hit a privilege escalation vulnerability on the os, all bets are off....
Ubuntu is updating all products in all repo's, with a single command/daily check.
The problem with windows is that you're not doing this at all when you check windows update/wsus - you're checking windows only- (other microsoft products if you opted-in to doing this).
This is in fact the real problem with windows- patch management is just a total nightmare.
For example, Adobe also patched today- but can you manage that upgrade at the same time? Nope.
it's mindbogglingly hard at any point in time to say you are patched when running a windows system. This is the greatest challange/weakness of windows, and the biggest benefit of Linux - package management as a means of achieving security.
You're making the bold assumption that electing a "democrat" is in the view of nadar voters a better outcome than electing a "republican". Perhaps those Nader voters felt differently?
So.. if you're in a position of power over a company- i.e you owe them a lot of money, you can starve the company, force bankruptcy upon it, then get their source code?
Hmm. Wonder what could possibly go wrong here?
Seems to me that equipment of this type should be running on software that's been written from the ground up to be secure and crash-proof.
I'm intrigued by your implication that windows, or any other OS wasn't written with these goals in mind.
Perhaps, it's just not quite so easy to achieve?
The model of advertising was in the past that "50% of your advertising was ineffective, but you don't know which 50% that is".
With internet advertising you have direct clicking actually showing results without any ambiguity. You know the cost/value of any advert.
So the rationalisation is happening around 'presence' advertising, which is simply disappearing from the marketplace. That is impacting the newspapers, content brokers who were makign their living on the 50% wastage....
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Way to miss the whole point- WSUS/Windows Update/Microsoft Update only helps where MS patches are concerned.
>Sorry, that's not the case. I'm not happy about this month's load of patches, but there are perfectly good patch management solutions out there that can manage multiple vendors and products with ease. Please name one that is suitable for a "home" user with little or no technical ability to setup and use? This is a major problem with the windows ecosystem. Staying on top is hard.
Because a WSUS install helps a single user at home stay upto date with any degree of reliability. Idiot.
Ooops- linked wrong article, but essentially, you can do what you want by using SSL and client side certs.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SecureApt Use client-side certs.
There are non-free apps in some of the multiverse repo's so yes, obviously they can. In anycase, Anyone can add a custom repo to their sources.list and a valid signing key.
If the user had UAC disabled, they w/could have been owned. Being in the admin group on Vista shouldn't in itself allow a drive by to write files outside the user's home folders. Same if you were running safari with sudo on OSX, or Firefox as root on Linux. Any user running as admin/root is a fool. Of course, if the code you do run in your drive by download can hit a privilege escalation vulnerability on the os, all bets are off....
The problem with windows is that you're not doing this at all when you check windows update/wsus - you're checking windows only- (other microsoft products if you opted-in to doing this).
This is in fact the real problem with windows- patch management is just a total nightmare.
For example, Adobe also patched today- but can you manage that upgrade at the same time? Nope.
it's mindbogglingly hard at any point in time to say you are patched when running a windows system. This is the greatest challange/weakness of windows, and the biggest benefit of Linux - package management as a means of achieving security.
Firefox Community Edition already supports group policy. http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/fmfirefox.htm
Set firefox as default, and use http://ieview.mozdev.org/ with the whitelist pages set.
http://www.vm-help.com//esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php
Bing thinks I'm from the UK, presumably based on language settings, rather than in New Zealand, (which it could determine from IP.).
I raise you SCART. (Thankfully now disappearing.)
She was a crazy. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position_(book)
Print "readable" version here: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4035/from_the_past_to_the_future_tim_.php?print=1
You're making the bold assumption that electing a "democrat" is in the view of nadar voters a better outcome than electing a "republican". Perhaps those Nader voters felt differently?
Password safe , add the question and give a randomly generator combination as the answer. Problem solved.
.. if they launch Endeavour to rescue Atlantis, and Endeavour suffers damage at launch?
So.. if you're in a position of power over a company- i.e you owe them a lot of money, you can starve the company, force bankruptcy upon it, then get their source code? Hmm. Wonder what could possibly go wrong here?
Seems to me that equipment of this type should be running on software that's been written from the ground up to be secure and crash-proof.
I'm intrigued by your implication that windows, or any other OS wasn't written with these goals in mind. Perhaps, it's just not quite so easy to achieve?
It does on XP, which is what the parent was asking about.
No, Seriously.
"Client side", as in he merely viewed a remote web page with his "client". (You know, like the internets is intended for.)
http://jamespaulsain.com/photos/elizabeth/tigg%26shamu.gif !!!!
The model of advertising was in the past that "50% of your advertising was ineffective, but you don't know which 50% that is".
With internet advertising you have direct clicking actually showing results without any ambiguity. You know the cost/value of any advert.
So the rationalisation is happening around 'presence' advertising, which is simply disappearing from the marketplace. That is impacting the newspapers, content brokers who were makign their living on the 50% wastage....