Re: Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible


"Imhotep" <imhotep@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Michael D. Ober wrote:


The only OS that this warning doesn't appear to apply to is OpenVMS.
Linux (and by extension, Mac OS-X) and Unix are also subject to this same
problem.

Mike.

"Imhotep" <imhotep@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.-In a rare discussion about the severity of the
Windows malware scourge, a Microsoft security official said businesses
should consider investing in an automated process to wipe hard drives
and
reinstall operating systems as a practical way to recover from malware
infestation."

"When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs,
the
only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is
no
way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit," Mike Danseglio,
program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft, said in a
presentation at the InfoSec World conference here."

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1945808,00.asp

Imhotep


What kind of 'stuff' are you smoking???? Do you have any idea how stupid
you
sound?

I have been using Linux for 10 years, never caught anything. If I had a
dollar everytime I caught something on Windows I could retire very
wealthy.
The truth is that malware is 99.9 % a Windows problem. So stop lying about
it!

Imhotep

I would suggest that that is in fact an assessment of skill.
I have (iniitally, had to) run Windows versions for a dozen years now,
starting with NT 3.50, and have not caught anything.
I will admit that in the dozen or so years before that when I ran
*nix brands exclusively it was much easier to not "catch" anything,
but that was partly the threat level and partly the simplicity of the
user authorization model.

Roger


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