Mary: Cisco at least has competition. Juniper Networks has about a 25% share of the router market, which keeps Cisco honest. Microsoft has almost market penetration at the desktop for both the home and business. IMHO, they deserve all the anti-MS drivel people can dish out. I will tire of it when I don't have to spend an hour each month clearing my firewall logs of attempted Code Red and Nimda infection attempts
Edward W. Ray -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Landesman Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:55 AM To: David F. Skoll; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause That's pretty much like teaching your kids to never talk to strangers, or never visit the "bad" part of town. Fact is, most crimes are committed by people we know. Microsoft is often victimized, mainly because they are so ubiquitous. Cisco is running a poll right now to see which of the 17 critical patches are most important to users, because they only have the manpower to fix 10 of them. Should we all stop using Cisco products? This anti-MS drivel is so tiresome. -- Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:06 PM Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just wanted to remind everybody that tomorrow is Personal Firewall Day. > http://www.personalfirewallday.org/ That Web site is utterly disingenuous. Rather than giving low-value information, how about high-value information that actually protects people: 1) Don't use Windows. 2) Don't use Outlook. Our company uses neither Windows nor Outlook, and although we do have a firewall, we do not use anti-virus software. Of course, the sponsors of the site (Microsoft and a bunch of anti-virus vendors) can hardly see it as being in their interest to actually create a secure computing environment. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
