> Only correct for those who refuse to admit or are unaware of > inherent M$ vuneralbilities. "If you use NT/Win2K/WinXP, you most
I admit to, and am aware of, MS's vulnerabilities, and also how to mitigate them; it's part of my job responsibilities. Please don't be insulting or dismissive. > certainly can easily" sidetrack the (fake) security. 12 year old > mentality script kiddies have little problem with M$ anything. Tho > I'd wonder why you think M$ web clients and IIS servers are so > unattractive to black hatters (?) .... since the Top 10 viruses for I never said I thought any such thing; you're reading more into the email than I wrote. > But I digress, as M$ win3.x thru winXP security sloppiness is off > topic for this list. What's pertinent is that using a real OS like > Linux, you should never ever connect to the Net as root. Specially to > d/l and install binaries, which was advocated in the beginning of > this thread, and what I responded to. Even with a Un*x OS, if it's > not properly maintained and secured, root priviges can be usurped. > (Google 'rootkit'). Specially when d/l'ing files or even just email. You could download the file, and then su to a root shell, and install that way - presuming that you knew where and how to copy the files. There is a webpage somwehere on the Net that I saw once, that detailed how you could install the Mozilla Java plugin after downloading (i.e., not running the Mozilla install routine). No offense, Tom, but you seem to have this knee-jerk pavlovian response to certain subjects - accessing the Internet via MS products; NVidia's closed source binaries. A more calm response might be more effective on those topics.
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