Ok, the fact of the mater is, if you have someone who dosn't know what computer security is it dosn't mater what OS their running. BSD and most linuxes are kinda nice because the mostly secure to startm and inorder to do something stupid.. you would have to know how to do it. As apposed to windows.. all you have to do it press the button of noobness and get owned by the newest virus. I don't really blame MS for this problem, but there the most common desktop and there OS gives crackers their biggest bang for the buck, and inorder to make things easy for there users they leave them self wide open. I am sure unixes have problems but there just not as targeted as windows. Security will allways be a debatable thing because you computer is only as smart as the person running it.. And in most cases with the gerneral public, this has bad concequences.
There is 1 strong point to unix on the desktop though.. User Privlage Seperation!!
90% of windows users run there box as Administrator ( or the same thing under some other name)
90% of unix users run as a restricted access user on there box..
running as a user who has "God" like powers is ussualy a stupid thing to do.
(unfortionly I see this way way way to offen on windows systems)
Even sadder alot of security VPN systems require there users to run as administrator..
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Ok, the fact of the mater is, if you have someone who dosn't know what computer security is it dosn't mater what OS their running. BSD and most linuxes are kinda nice because the mostly secure to startm and inorder to do something stupid.. you would have to know how to do it. As apposed to windows.. all you have to do it press the button of noobness and get owned by the newest virus. I don't really blame MS for this problem, but there the most common desktop and there OS gives crackers their biggest bang for the buck, and inorder to make things easy for there users they leave them self wide open. I am sure unixes have problems but there just not as targeted as windows. Security will allways be a debatable thing because you computer is only as smart as the person running it.. And in most cases with the gerneral public, this has bad concequences.
There is 1 strong point to unix on the desktop though.. User Privlage Seperation!!
90% of windows users run there box as Administrator ( or the same thing under some other name)
90% of unix users run as a restricted access user on there box..
running as a user who has "God" like powers is ussualy a stupid thing to do.
(unfortionly I see this way way way to offen on windows systems) Even sadder alot of security VPN systems require there users to run as administrator..