Re: Someone got into my system

Patrick Dickey wrote:

Imhotep wrote:
Panda_man wrote:

My reply is at the bottom of your message :

"jt3" wrote:

The trouble is, people are using these things more and more--it's hard
to avoid em.



The good news is that it is not a trouble !!!


Panda_man

...then explain to me why %99.99999999999999 percent of the PCs that scan
my company are Microsoft based? Explain to me why that are all looking
for MS products further compromise? Explain to me why with all the money
that people spend on MS products, and with the lack of quality, they are
also the most expensive?

Yup, the sure does classify as a problem to me.

Imhotep

Just because you're a smaller target, doesn't mean you're not a target.

What does that mean? Simple. Mac OS and Linux comprise something like
5% to 10% of the total Operating Systems in use today. They will grow
in popularity. And when they do, hackers and other malicious intender's
will start to target them as well. What will you say then?

I do agree with you in spirit, that if I pay good money for a program, I
would hope it works right. However, after learning various programming
languages, two things were taught at the beginning of each. 1) 80% to
90% of what you'll do as a programmer is maintaining existing programs.
and 2) No computer program will ever be 100% bug-free.

If you think that Microsoft should make Windows 100% bug-free before
they sell it, that's insane. There is at least 10 million lines of code
in Windows. (Curiously enough there's probably 10 million lines of code
in Linux, Mac OS, and Unix each). If Microsoft hires 10,000 people just
for bug-checking, how many lines of code does each person have to look
at? That's not counting the fact that your 10,000 lines of code
interact with my 10,000 lines of code, so we both have to check them
together (along with the other 9,998 people who's code interacts with
ours).

Linux (and Unix) have been around for at least as long as Windows
(longer in Unix's case). They are still releasing fixes for bugs today.
Why aren't you whining about those OS's? They're not 100% bug-free.
And, they have security issues also.

Firefox, just released an update that fixed a number of security issues.
Yet, you still whine that it's better then Internet Explorer.
Curiously enough, IE just released updates that fixed a number of
security issues also. Yet, you still whine that it's not secure. If
Firefox is so good and secure, why did they have to release a fix for
security issues?

For the record, I use Linux, Firefox, and Mozilla Thunderbird. I also
use Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office. I prefer certain
programs for certain tasks. Just like you.


Patrick please read this:
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40053-1.html

Please note that this source has NOT been funded by Linux, Apple or
Microsoft....

Patrick.

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