dee wrote:
yes but its not Microsoft s fault that hackers target them is it? I find
Microsoft fine with everything really and most programs are geared for
Microsoft. and I have a friend who has Linux and she finds it very
good with
some things but not being a techie, she has to have her son keep sorting
it out for her when things go wrong. dee
Yes it is their fault. They are targeted because their products are like
swiss cheese, with no security at all. For instance, where every other
system in the world forced a person to enter a password to get onto a
server, Microsoft decided that if you entered a password to get onto
your own workstation, that should give you access to all the servers on
the network, including all Windows machines on the internet. Pure
idiocy. There were thousands of security holes in virtually every
product they have produced. Security for them has never been a prime
issue, and it shows. Believe me, if Unix systems were as prone to
attack as Microsoft products, you would see just as many viruses and
worms for them. They simply do not exist because these operating systems
were designed to be hack proof. After all hacking into a Unix system
that contains thousands or millions of credit card numbers would be a
lot more lucrative than hacking into one person's personal computer with
maybe one or two numbers available. I have found they even put things in
to make it difficult for normally secure programs to remain secure. For
instance for perl programs there is the -T (stands for tainted) option,
that you use as a compiler directive to prevent hacking. When installed
on Unix systems, it works fine. For Windows servers, they will not even
let you compile the program with that option, it is like they don't want
the system to be secure, even for programs written be be secure.
Marshall
Langsley wrote:
On Wednesday
20 August 2008 5:15 am, Dee wrote:
my programs are updated
daily Chuck, and I have the latest version of the
Shield as
well. I also
have *three* anti Spyware programs running!
Just
one of those things
that we are plagued with in
this modern world
unfortunately. dee
You
wouldn't
be if you didn't run Microsoft software!!
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