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No need to spin MSFT security
Windows botnets are the biggest threat to internet security:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html?_r=1&ex=157680000&en=805441d02904be89&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg&oref=slogin

What is new is the vastly escalating scale of the problem ? and the precision with which some of the programs can scan computers for specific information, like corporate and personal data, to drain money from online bank accounts and stock brokerages.

That would be Windows computers. Not Mac, not Linux, Windows. MSFT can't keep up with the increasing number and sophistication of threat vectors. The level of effort it takes to keep a Windows network operating securely is really quite insane. But companies keep trying. lol. Funny to watch.

And before some twitwit tries to say that if Mac or Linux had bigger market share there would be more of them in botnets, you're wrong. Security and permissions are entirely different.

Let me guess, you're going to tell people to upgrade to Vista. That'll probably help for a while. XP was the most secure OS MSFT ever produced and look at the mess we have today. Two, three years from now and Vista will be every bit the security freak show that XP is today. That's the way it was with 2000, the way it was with XP and the way it will be with Vista.

That's the price you pay staying with MSFT technology.
Posted by: Chad_z   Posted on: 01/07/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Microsoft pulls four planned patches  Loverock Davidson | 01/05/07
Somebody will spin it to a negative  Boot_Agnostic | 01/05/07
You are friendly attackers?  Grayson Peddie | 01/05/07
Yep  Boot_Agnostic | 01/05/07
You don't have to correct me because  Grayson Peddie | 01/06/07
You've become a bit hostile  Boot_Agnostic | 01/07/07
Okay, fine, I won't be negative.  CobraA1 | 01/05/07
Have a wonderful day  Boot_Agnostic | 01/05/07
ahh, I see  xuniL_z | 01/06/07
Windows XP Professional, actually (nt)  CobraA1 | 01/06/07
No need to spin MSFT security  Chad_z | 01/07/07
I KNOW Microsoft reads these things....  nomorems | 01/05/07
Come up with something original  John Zern | 01/05/07
John...aren't you happy???  nomorems | 01/05/07
I'm looking for originality, nomoremoron  John Zern | 01/05/07
I know you try to read  osreinstall | 01/05/07
Yes they read them, but bashers  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/06/07
No_Ax is a PR flak  Chad_z | 01/07/07
What was your first clue?  critic-at-arms | 01/08/07
I wonder how he gets paid?  ChazzMatt | 01/09/07
While it's remotely possible  xuniL_z | 01/06/07
Only after laughing their  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/06/07
More on MS Security, not likely to be reported on ZDNet  Richard Flude | 01/07/07
It is a feature dangit!  Seenidog | 01/08/07
oops!  Seenidog | 01/08/07
One possible explanation  critic-at-arms | 01/08/07
OR  Shelendrea | 01/09/07

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