On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Paul Farber wrote:
> It IS a MS problem, they should not allow any indescriminate user to run
> format or del *.* . IF you don't want a child to shoot themselves, don't
> give them a gun to play with.
ONE moment!!! you're comparing UNIX with win95/WIN3.1. I can assure you
that when you login on my NT desktop machine as an ordinary user you can't
just format the disk.
> UNIX/Linux has the ability to say.. "Hey, you can't do that!" with a
> simple feature like file permissions and file ownership. Why hasn't MS
> followed suit with these basic security precaustions? Half the viruses in
> the world would become obsolete with this one patch.
they have, it's known as windowsNT... surely you've heard of it?
I'm interested in discussions about how I can plug a proper anti-virus
products into qmail. I have no interest in OS bashing like I'm seeing on
this list at the moment.
RjL
