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| Look to Windows 3.0 If you want to know how this began, go talk to the security experts who warned Bill Gates he was unleashing the Internet version of the Bubonic Plague when he rewrote OE in VBS and released it. That was ??? 'about ten years ago. It's been a down hill slide ever since.
Security experts warned Gates about XP a couple of years before it was released with unsecured root access enabled; they warned it would make attacks too easy for malware and virus writers. Bill said it would make computing easier and more fun. Hmmmm? Are you having fun swatting viruses, stamping out spam and patching your box every month?
Guess what .. those monthly patches are an accumulation of weekly and sometimes daily patches MS releases. And contrary to popular opinion there are operating systems that can be secured and protected - but they are not compiled on DOS and they are not written by shade tree mechanics.
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| I stopped using IE because of the various hijacks that web sites could do: changing your home page, adding all kinds of horrible toolbars. Isn't this because IE comes with default settings for adding toolbar extensions, etc? Why Microsoft leaves all the default settings open for malicious use is just beyond me. They should turn OFF all the settings that allow tampering and make the user learn how to turn them on, if needed.
Anyway, I use Firefox. Never any problem with Firefox at all. I also use aports (shows open ports, what software is running the open port, and what IP it's communicating with) to make sure nothing is communicating without me knowing about it, I check msconfig (startup tab) regularly to see what's running when I turn on my computer, and I use SpyBot. So far, no problems for me.
Like the Comcast spokesperson said when they announced some customers would have port 25 blocked due to spam viruses, most of the people who will get blocked are grannies who haven't a clue and Comcast doesn't want to make them angry.
It's up to Microsoft to protect the grannies of the world from the virus writers. So far, Microsoft has failed miserably. |
