| ??? 11/16/07 18:40 Read: times |
#147089 - Re: Huh? Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Craig Steiner said:
The amount of spam you receive has zero to do with the operating system. Email is an application level issue. In Windows, merely receiving certain spam can infect a machine. And spam is an irritation, though no so much as a virus is. A virus that is executed by a non-root user can do quite a bit of damage anyway. Not if you set up an account used only to access the internet. You said in your other post that the only machine you ever had compromised was a Linux machine. I think it far more likely you had a configuration error. If the goal of the virus is to build a botnet, they can do that just as easily on Linux from a non-root account since non-root accounts can access the Internet, too. Really. And just how do they build this botnet? I done quite a bit of research on it and never encountered reports of such a thing happening in Linux. Windows, yes. Frequently. Or if the virus is just designed to collect user information, the virus can just as easily go through the user's personal directory and collect personal information. Don't access the internet using an account that contains your personal info. I haven't noticed any significant difference in install times between Linux and Windows when running on hardware it recognizes. I have. Linux - about an hour tops. Windows - about half a day when you include installing applications (which is automatic in Linux). In my experience on the desktop, Linux is far more broken than Windows. YMMV. In my experience, you're a minority of one. Just do the rest of the world a favor and don't connect it to the internet. Now you're getting into extremist evangelizing. Not any more so than advising people not to drive while drunk. Now I have an outbound firewall prohibition on SMTP to prevent any of my machines from doing that. Email is sent on a different port that my password-protected SMTP relay honors. But no spammer is going to use my Linux box for spamming again. :-) Try accomplishing that with a Windows box. And if I had a dollar for every Linux user that thought that he couldn't be. You'd have enough to buy dinner at Denny's ;-) |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Says it better than I can | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| re 'evangelism' | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| So limited | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I believe it's obvious | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| If YOU would read what I posted | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Wine and VirtualBox | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| and you suggest that for DEVELOPMENT??? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Don't know about Linux but love your D52.EXE | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Why ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What makes Linux less vunerable? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Design | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| that's great, but ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yes, it is | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Huh? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Re: Huh? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Linux vs Windows | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What sort of Linux do you have, Craig? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oh yea ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| True | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Looks like... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Security | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| AMEN! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Everybody should use linux! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Linux attacks | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not Targets | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Caveat Emptor | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| email vulnerability | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Kleinstein | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Linux is the "solution" ... for now ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Concur | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Layers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Perhaps | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Separation | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| If Linux was an airline | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Keep reading | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Bad logic | 01/01/70 00:00 |