On June 12, 2012 at 12:33 wayne@staff.msen.com (Michael R. Wayne) wrote:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:44:44AM +0000, Jamie Bowden wrote:
While MS may be a favorite whipping boy, let's not pretend that if the dominant OS were Apple or some flavor of *nix, things would be any better.
That assumes the security architectures of all these OS's is similar which is simply not true. There have been security flaws in Microsoft OS's which led to the spread of malware which would have been almost impossible on any unix-like operating system. One of the biggest problems was creating the first and often only user on MS systems with administrator privileges allowing any piece of software they ran to do anything on the system. Even Microsoft recognized this to be a huge flaw beginning with Vista, no need to be more catholic than the pope. The problem at this point is that even with improvements in newer Windows systems there are probably on the order of a billion systems out there, attached to the net, and still running these deeply flawed OS's which can be taken over by just clicking on the wrong mail message. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*