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Absolutely pathetic.
All of you...pathetic...absolutely pathetic.



"FAT32 is completely open"

Of course I wasn't talking about FAT32..but I knew some bozo would bring it up. Should we start comparing Windows XP to Slackware 96' on usability?

"i'm not sure what he means but NTFS does have an awful recovery of data rate when something foobar the drive. That might make it more secure I gues"

Suuuure. NTFS is a very reliable filesystem. Much more reliable that ext2fs. Congrats to linux on finally catching up to NT in the last few years with it's newer filesystems!


"The default setup of NTFS isn't too great. Much better than FAT, yes, but the default privledges are still poorly set up so that a virus, if accidently run in the user's desktop, could still cause damage beyond the user's account."

Can you please give me an exmaple? Regardless - what does this have to do with the security of the file system? If s ship a linux ditro with every file set to 777, does that make the file system insecure?

"On a system like Linux, a virus would be severely limited, as the damage would be localized to the user's account."

As it would be in Windows.

"but the default permissions. NTFS 5 is fine but over 90% of the home users I've seen have XP installed on FAT32.

Oh so we're making up stats now? Sorry, but I've not seen all of these FAT32 installations. Every new computer I've ever seen in the last few years has come with NTFS as the file system.

I won't even go into .dll's."

You shouldn't, since there would be nothing to go into.
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This is NOT a mistake  toomuchgreeatea@... | 08/29/05
Never said it was a mistake  Squawkbox | 08/29/05
glitch?  dwest_z | 08/29/05
Maybe I'm reading between the lines here...  rock06r | 08/27/05
Hey Rock,  BXLE | 08/27/05
Re: Maybe I'm reading between the lines here...  none none | 08/27/05
Don't you check those registry keys?  Squawkbox | 08/27/05
email exe's  skeptic tank | 08/27/05
What is your favorite method  enduser_z | 08/27/05
Get a grip  skeptic tank | 08/27/05
Slightly more secure filesystem?  toadlife | 08/27/05
secure fs  Rokstar83 | 08/28/05
It's not so much the file system itself  skeptic tank | 08/28/05
Wouldn't...  rapson | 08/29/05
DLL Mess...  Anti_Zealot | 08/29/05
more than slightly  CobraA1 | 08/28/05
Absolutely pathetic.  toadlife | 08/28/05
Now We're "Absolutely pathetic"  jacarter3 | 08/29/05
okay  toadlife | 08/29/05
yeah  jacarter3 | 08/29/05
Come to think of it  toadlife | 08/29/05
Re: get a grip  Otto_Delete | 08/29/05
I'm one of those  vinnie327 | 08/29/05
seen similar use  merio74 | 08/27/05
Where is No_ax_to_grind?  An_Axe_to_Grind | 08/29/05

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