RE: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat


-----Original Message-----
From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:41 PM
To: tomas@xxxxxxx; 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@xxxxxxxxx



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
Sweden
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