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You are rather naive, Sir or Ma'm...Dumb Users are NOT the Prob!

...and I really do NOT mean this as a personal attack on you, per
se, but you so PERFECTLY represented this particular point of
view that I just HAD to take this opportunity!

"the virus writers will attack whoever is on top"

IT Industry Analysts began warning us about Windblows'
inherent, fundamental security weaknesses MORE THAN FIFTEEN
YEARS AGO, and instead of taking that well-founded,
constructive criticism and IMPROVING their products as they've
revised them over the years, MS has consistently demonstrated
their total disdain for their customers (and the entire computing
/ internet community) by relentlessly churning out software that
is EASY TO ATTACK AND EXPLOIT!

MS's market dominance is only PART of the reason that their
software is the target of all these malicious hackers - the other
and IMO much more significant part is that MS software is
INCREDIBLY POORLY DESIGNED from a security standpoint and is
the 'Holey Grail' for these techno-vandals; it's practically an
open invitation to anyone w/ even a moderate level of
intelligence and minimal skills who has this kind of mind-set.

I'm not one of those zealots will tell you that if 'UNIX and
variants had MS's market share, all of this would disappear' - NO
OS IS BULLETPROOF, and if the 'roles' were reversed, I'm sure we
would still see SOME of this kind of activity, but it would be a
TINY PERCENTAGE of what we're seeing now, b/c only the
REALLY CLEVER hackers would succeed at it, instead of the
zillions of 'script kiddies' and casual mischief-makers who are
annoying (or worse) all the rest of us almost every day now.

Posted by: kbeartx   Posted on: 07/08/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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