RE: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat


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From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:28 PM
To: tomas@xxxxxxx; For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

Tomas Larsson wrote:

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.



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.

Are saying these guys are stupid?
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=49857

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I'm not saying that Windows by any means are safer than other OS, but its
not more un-safe either.
Obviously since there is more systems out there, compared to Linux, there
ought to be more problem's.

What I'm saying that any-one that runs an unprotected computer despite all
media coverage is stupid, he or she cannot blame the OS if he or she opens a
virusinfected mail.
The same goes for installing software that in best case is unstable and in
worst case.....
People seems to blame everything on the OS, when they buy some cheap noname
addon-cards with drivers that makes an havoc in the system.

Obviously that does not happen in the LINUX world, basically because those
no-name manufacturers does not target the linux community and subsequently
there is no drivers, and you don't install it, hence no problems.

Obviously there must be flaws in any OS/SW even Linux, as an example my
FC4-server was rooted, due to a flaw in php/MySQL.

I ended up with a complete re-install, if it was a windows-system, first of
all, it wouldn't probably happen, since my AW would have taken care of it,
plus the fact that I would have managed to remove it without re-installing,
So in a sence Linux is far much more complicated to restore, compared to
Windows XP.



With best regards

Tomas Larsson
Sweden
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