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Re: Should Motherboard makers bundle Linux CD with every shipment?

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From: DevilsPGD
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:48
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<website_has_email@www.enemygadgets.com> wrote:

>Thats just not as moot as it once was. There are more WINDUMMY Osen viruses,
>malware, spyware, trojans, keyloggers, botnetware and spamware released per
>day than all of the engineers from micoshaft corporation, its partners and
>all the anti-virus companies can write fixes. 

Of course there are.  Well over 90% of every end user desktop is running
Windows.  Even the ones that jumped to OSX still have Windows running
too.

>The Micoshaft platform is
>unfixable and unmaintable. IT Admins are being hoodwinked about the reality
>of it all into a false sense of security.

Maybe, but there are those of us who just don't seem to have problems.
My last security compromise was in the 90s, and I run several internet
facing servers without hardware firewalls (we use IPsec based traffic
controls), plus manage a number of Windows XP and Vista PCs, including
two Vista boxes hooked directly to the internet.

The biggest problem today is the blob of meat running the keyboard and
mouse, the one clicking "Allow" to install that "codec pack" to see an
upskirt shot of $TRASHYCELEBOFTHEHOUR.
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