Re: What is the best affordable protection?

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 18:19:35 GMT

On Fri, 21 May 2004 01:40:31 GMT, Alun Jones [MS MVP - Security] <alun@texis.invalid> wrote:
>
>
> In article <cFarc.3832$be.98@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>, xxxx@yyy.zzz
> wrote:
>>Linux. Or you are just a sucker for the snake-oil salespersons that claim they
>>can make Windoze secure. It's impossible, and history demonstrates that
>> clearly.
>
> You appear to have a bad case of religion.
>

Huh?

> The most secure operating system is the one with the operator who knows what
> he is doing, and does not do or enable that which he does not need to.
>
>>All the big scares that come up over worms and viruses every year. People that
>>run Linux just ignore them and snicker at the suckers who install the latest
>>security patch from Windoze...
>
> And if we all used Linux instead, all the worms would be targeted there. I
> can protect my Windows system better than I could protect a Linux system,
> because I've educated myself about my system. Not because one is 'better'
> than the other

Crap. Windoze is a bad hack on DOS which was a lame Unix clone.

Have a nice day.

<snip>

AC

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