__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 06 January 2007 23:15 \__
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> BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> <snip>
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> < about switches from Windows to Linux in order to gain security :>
>>
>> I'll tell you something else too, of those I have switched, and they have
>> been many over the years (mainly individuals or small companies) very very
>> few go back to MS. Probably the main reasons are the most obvious to those
>> users, because those are the ones that get mentioned over and over when
>> they talk to me. No risks in emails, no risks in internet browsing. My
>> main weapons? spamassassin (I filter on content type as well as the usual
>> spamassassin lists) and SquidGuard, two items that the general user can
>> not see but produce great visual effects with clean mail boxes and clean
>> web browsing. But this cleanliness does not mean that they are inhibited
>> in any way, I have always been a believer in that Linux must give it's
>> users a safe-secure system, but NOT inhibit their use of the system.
>>
>> Do you remember MS's fix for one of it's IE7 browser's security promlems?
>> 'Do not browse any unknown web sites'. It's mentioned in this news group
>> somewhere just a month or so before xmas.
>>
>
> It's no different to "not opening emails from people you don't know",
> and "not opening word documents from people you don't know". If you're
> unfortunate enough to be running a Windows computer, then disconnecting
> it from the internet is probably the smartest thing you can do with it.
Don't forget vulnerabilities where merely viewing an image (e.g. by opening a
file manager that contains it, or even an E-mail) leads to a buffer overflow
which soon enables your grandpa's PC to be part of a DDOSing botnet...
without much intervention either. You cannot secure users, not even through
eduction, in a land that's insecure by design. You can learn a man how to
duck, but it won't save his life in the trenches.
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