Windows Is The Wrong System For the Security-Unconscious
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| She uses Windows. Worse, she uses AOL. A virus on top of a virus. Great.
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| [...]
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| Microsoft has given technical 3-year-olds the keys to the car (a Yugo, at
| that), released the parking brake, and - with little, if any information on
| how to operate the car - told them to drive. The result is that many novices
| have no clue about looking both ways before crossing the street. They know
| nothing about needing to change the oil every so often, or to rotate the
| tires. That is, these people know precious little about maintenance and
| safety, both of which are crucial in a connected world.
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| The ramifications go beyond potential harm to the novice user in question.
| The real danger is that, without any real grasp of how to stay safe on the
| Internet, these people endanger everyone they come into contact with,
| regardless of whether they happen to be on the virtual highway at the same
| time. On top of that, consider the relational damage when family members and
| friends attempt to navigate the muddy waters of netiquette and/or lost data
| because one person thoughtlessly passed along some spam with a payload.
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http://blue-gnu.biz/content/windows_wrong_system_security_unconscious
Everybody suffers.
Stop the botnets!
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| This is the intention of Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University
| of Wisconsin-Madison. He wants to build a new line of defense against
| malicious traffic which has become today a billion-dollar 'shadow industry.'
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http://www.primidi.com/2007/11/09.html#a2003
Related:
Why Windows is less secure than Linux
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| Windows is inherently harder to secure than Linux. There I said
| it. The simple truth.
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| Many millions of words have been written and said on this topic.
| I have a couple of pictures.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311
Linux more secure than Windows, national survey shows
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| In its first annual Security Issues Survey for the debut of the Software
| Security Summit conference in La Jolla, California, BZ Research polled
| 6,344 software development managers about the security of different popular
| enterprise operating environments and Linux and open source consistently
| topped Microsoft Windows, according to respondents.
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http://www.xomba.com/linux_more_secure_than_windows_national_survey_shows
Linux Security: A Big Edge Over Windows
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| Linux is better at locking down a computer than Windows. The Linux OS
| uses configuration settings and user permissions to a much more
| efficient degree than the Windows administrator account. To do
| this, non-enterprise users should seek help from third-party
| security suites that serve as configuration managers, James
| Bottomley, chief technology officer of SteelEye Technology said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54742.html
How secure are Linux, Window and Mac OS?
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| Overall it looks like the Linux kernel turns out to be the most
| secure system. Not only does it have virtually no security holes
| that lead to system access, it's also very resilient to remote
| attacks, two areas where both Windows and Mac OS X aren't doing
| very well.
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http://www.masuran.org/node/29
If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now About Windows XP
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| You can think of Windows XP as a house with a second floor built of
| spackle, wood filler and duct tape.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300510.html?nav=rss_technology
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