That would actually be a good thing. Most viruses today don't do much to the person who has the virus, and therefore the user is in no hurry to remove it or patch the hole. If the virus floods their computer with advertisments and slows down their machine, then they would need to switch to Mozilla or Linux to stop the flood of garbage that fills the screen.
This would also help to lower the national deficit. Virus writters wouldn't write viruses that DOS servers anymore, because it would be legal, profitable, and much more amusing to write viruses that spread faster and reak havok on people's computers.
First, I hate how everybody is listing Gentoo as having the flaws, the flaws are just discovered by Gentoo usually. They do have some patches, but they aren't know to intruduce bugs. They are doing everybody a favor by reporting these, and then people make it look like it's a Gentoo specific bug.
Most of those vulnerabilities are already patched or discovered in obsoleate software(like KDE 3.1). Gentoo is actually more secure because you can quickly update all your software with two commands.
Also, who cares if you can DOS your self with iptools? That would be more user-error than exploit(especialy as I believe that you need root permisions to do so).
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That would actually be a good thing. Most viruses today don't do much to the person who has the virus, and therefore the user is in no hurry to remove it or patch the hole. If the virus floods their computer with advertisments and slows down their machine, then they would need to switch to Mozilla or Linux to stop the flood of garbage that fills the screen. This would also help to lower the national deficit. Virus writters wouldn't write viruses that DOS servers anymore, because it would be legal, profitable, and much more amusing to write viruses that spread faster and reak havok on people's computers.
First, I hate how everybody is listing Gentoo as having the flaws, the flaws are just discovered by Gentoo usually. They do have some patches, but they aren't know to intruduce bugs. They are doing everybody a favor by reporting these, and then people make it look like it's a Gentoo specific bug.
Most of those vulnerabilities are already patched or discovered in obsoleate software(like KDE 3.1). Gentoo is actually more secure because you can quickly update all your software with two commands.
Also, who cares if you can DOS your self with iptools? That would be more user-error than exploit(especialy as I believe that you need root permisions to do so).