Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat
Tomas Larsson
tomas at tlec.se
Thu Apr 19 13:50:54 UTC 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:41 PM
> To: tomas at tlec.se; For users of Fedora
> Subject: Re: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat
>
> Tomas Larsson wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> You don't today - or you don't see it because the viruses are
> more stealthy and designed to spread slowly and remain
> undetected while permitting remote control of the machines to
> send spam or participate in an occasional DDOS attack. A few
> years back an unprotected, unpatched box would be hit by
> something in a couple of minutes on a random internet
> address. The 2003 slammer worm was probably the most
> dramatic of the bunch, practically knocking out the internet.
> It sent UDP packets out of RAM as fast as the machine could
> generate them.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
>
Well, obviously I have missed it, Been on the net since mid 90's, before
Win95, using 3.11 and on DSL since end 90's.
Allways been using AW-SW though, currently NAW.
So I wonder, Why has not any of my boxes ever been infected since it is said
to be so easy to infect Windows.
Well, the answer is, I think, It is not so easy, unless you are very very
very stupid.
Unfortunately there is a lot of people out there that is very very very very
stupid, just take look on all these scams, nigeria letters etc.
With best regards
Tomas Larsson
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