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Now We're "Absolutely pathetic"

It is not making up statistics when someonne posts "90% of the home users I've seen." That is a statement of personal experience only. BTW the last 7 computers that I purchased were all formatted with FAT32 whether W2K or WXP Home or Pro. That makes 100% of the ones that I have seen. Plus they all came with Admin has the only account and it had a blank password. Unless someone like me created User Accounts with limited priviledges, then the virus could take out the whole file system not just the user account. Funny thing is that the Linux box that I have did have user accounts setup and made the root (and SU) account hard to find. Is that a FS issues, no. Is it indicative of a more security minded OS philosophy, you bet.

And I won't go ionto the pathetic DLL debacle. It's way too easy to see how these turn up everywhere and represent very poor security measures.

Posted by: jacarter3   Posted on: 08/29/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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