Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat
Tomas Larsson
tomas at tlec.se
Thu Apr 19 13:24:58 UTC 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:41 PM
> To: tomas at tlec.se; For users of Fedora
> Subject: Re: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat
>
> Tomas Larsson wrote:
> >
> > My experience:
> [...]
> > The rumour that XP is unreliable etc, is just a rumour.
> > I have never been infected with a viruus on my XP-boxes, however I
> > have been rooted once on my FC-boxes.
> > Obviously it was my own fault, forgot about an old phpBB
> installation
> > on a public webserver.
>
> You must be very young, very firewalled, or very lucky - or
> your machines all came pre-installed with some service pack
> level. There was a point when if you installed a fresh XP or
> win2k the odds were that you would be hit by a virus before
> you cold get the service packs installed over the internet.
>
> > The so-called problem with Windows is, I think, that there
> are so much
> > crap software out there, that people install without any
> thoughts at
> > all, plus the fact that people use quite a lot of cracked
> sw, with no
> > clue what's in it.
>
> That's only a small part of the problem. There have been
> dozens of possible exploits within IE, so all it takes is
> visiting a site that triggers it. Likewise, many of the
> outlook exploits did not require that you open the message.
>
> > I use XP because it gets the work done, with a minimum of
> work, I dont
> > want to spend days trying to figure out on how to read from a CD or
> > weeks to figure out why my network-card does not work.
>
> That has to more to do with buying a machine with a
> preinstalled OS than which OS it is.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
>
I have never bought any box pre-installed except laptops.
I always by my boxes as parts, assembling them myself.
I never use OEM-SW neither on XP nor W2K.
The latest laptop I got, was pre-installed with XP-Home, I ditched that,
reformated the drive and installed XP-PRO.
Furthermore I don't use any SW-firewalls, except on the laptop I carry with
me, since I connect up wherever i find a WiFi spot avaible.
I have never been infected with virus, when connecting to the net for the
first updates, not even when using one of the original pre-SP1 CD's. Not
even running in front of my firewall.
Yes I use a firewall, before it was an old AMD-K6 with RH9, now it is an
P2-400 with FC5, using gShield script.
I have never used a dedicated firewall, probably by habit, since they were
so expensive onece upon a time, and a scrap P1-160 with RH7/9 was a cheaper
solution.
So I simly don't buy that you get infected first time you are connected.
With best regards
Tomas Larsson
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