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[News] [Rival] Remedy for Latest Windows Headaches: Don't Visit Government Web Sites

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Remedy for Latest Windows Headaches: Don't Visit Government Web Sites
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:02:23 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Republicans infect voters with Storm Trojan 

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| According to PC World at least one Republican Party web site has been hacked 
| and been spreading a variation of the long-running Storm Trojan horse. 
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42375

It goes on and on...

Build malware protection into operating systems [No, not by just installing
Linux]

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| Rutkowska has been prominent in the industry for exposing the security 
| shortcomings of Vista's kernel protection technology. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/17/gartner_rutkowska/

Even Microsoft's newly-acquired friend mess things up...

Symantec, BBC implicated in phishing scam 

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| The moral is clear: Symantec. For God's sake hire a new PR agency, and for 
| the BBC, hire some decent reporters who can tell fact from fiction or at 
| least can pick up the phone and ask some questions. Oh, and while you're at 
| it, sack the editors who should be picking this rubbish up before it makes 
| the front page.    
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42400


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Linux Security: A Big Edge Over Windows

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54742.html


The problems with Vista laid bare - What might have been

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38419


Why Windows is less secure than Linux

http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311


Linux more secure than Windows, national survey shows

http://www.xomba.com/linux_more_secure_than_windows_national_survey_shows


Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34978-2003Aug23?language=printer


If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now About Windows XP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300510.html?nav=rss_technology


Why Windows is a security nightmare.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120110704.html


The Structural Failures of Windows

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=15305

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