On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:43:58 -0500 Peter Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:15:06PM +0100, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > > > lukas wrote: > > >On Friday 30 January 2004 05:02, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: > > > > >It's sad that the internet is troubled by some weirdos who are > > >thinking that programming (or spreading) a virus is a real cool > > >thing. > > > > > > > Ooo yes, everything bad is good for something. > > > > One of virus purposes was to force M$hit to improve > > their crappy pseudo systems. We learned M$ is > > totally immune to such forces and really don't care > > about security and stability at all. > > (Only one thing is important INCOME.) > > Well, as a commericial company, Microsoft was founded to make money. So > do other companies, don't they? > > > This situation really forced ppl to do something > > with it ... and linux was born :-). > > Well, some of the recent worms are activated by end users open an > attachment, which could be an vbs or an executable. It is the executable > that infects the system as most Windows users log in as an Administrator > role. > > What if root on a Linux box open an attachment to a mail he receives today > and that attachment happens to be some executable that can ruin the > system? > > > Today viruses stimulate ppl switch to linux, and > > therefore are BIG catalysator for linux growth. > > I really doubt switching to Linux can stop virii from spreading. > BS. 1. No one has any objection to a software company making money. People have objection to M$ because of the crappy (but user friendly) virus-prone product and the monopolistic techniques they employ. 2. No one with a lick of sense (except maybe Lindows users) processes mail as root. Almost all viruses rely on the wide open nature of windows to inflict their harm. Converting to linux (or even to Apple OS X or xxxxBSD) will eliminate 99% of the problems. -- Collins - Denver Area - Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
