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join:2003-08-31
Jackson Heights, NY
1 edit | reply to kapil
Re: Lies! windows coders put backdoors into their code to make their lives easier regarding coding.... but these little short cuts mean the user is not even aware when something is installed. Even Vista has some of this "legacy" code.
Vista addresses this by popping up a confirm window whenever something runs... (whether its run before or has the checksum). The end result is the user clicks yes all the time without even reading...
MaxOSX requires a user to enter a password whenever a program tries to install an application or if a program is about to change a system setting... its a little more picky. So the enduser knows the program/website is doing something naughty...
very simple.
This is why worms and virii are harder to implement and have much less bang for the buck on Apple hardware.
I use both window and osx... and I can say hands down Mac OSX which is debian unix based has nifty concepts of user permissions and admin user privs. OSX is a much more hardened OS than any version of Windows can hope to be....
Ben
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