A lot of infections are because of users. Even when I used Windows I never got infected because I didn't double click on executables named "Hot Sexy Women Pictures" or anything else. Obviously with drive by downloads and other ways of infections that logic is flawed because that is not the user's fault. However people also visit websites that are more likely to infect them. Porn sites, warez, etc etc.
As for *nix permissions I don't see how that will change anything unless you are talking about files not being executable unless the user makes them. I don't know that it will help though. A user will get the message that it cannot be opened or is not executable and then they will search for a way to fix it and make it executable. Just like when a new Linux user downloads a script and can't run it... they get help and suddenly rmrf.sh makes their system nice and clean. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hilarious. If M$ started using *nix type permissions, would they be > violating the GPL or the BSD? I wonder what keeps they from proper > security. > > Chris... > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Ann <a...@randrinc.com> wrote: > > Well if you think about the fact that pc's that are never used don't get > > viruses then it must be 100% our fault. If we did not use the pc, it > > would not get a virus LOL. > > > > > > David Kaiser wrote: > >> http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/12/technology/microsoft_security/index.htm > >> > >> PC viruses are mostly your fault, Microsoft says > >> _______________________________________________ > >> LinuxUsers mailing list > >> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Ann Richmond > > ---------------- > > Randr Inc > > 951-369-3427 > > 951-787-8683 Fax > > www.randrinc.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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