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Why do you prefer *nix?
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Foney:
I have win2k and I have yet to get a virus. Your box is only as good as the person who is administrating it. Don't get me wrong I use linux to, if I had to choose servers for a company it would be linux cause of the money microsoft charges you. I still prefer 2k to linux though :D
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Consider yourself lucky. In the corporate world, at least those companies that use MS OSs and escpecially if they run Exchange/Outlook scramble every few months to clean up the latest viru that spread faster than they can kill it. Keeping virus software updated seems not to be very helpful as the virus has done it's deed by the time new DAT files are created.
And Microsoft isn't the fastest at putting out patches to stop this (because it's a fundamental flaw, not one easily patched). And even when they do put out patches companies running MS products rarely apply them company wide. They would rather scramble like chickens with their heads cut off.
What really amazes me is that someone hasn't exploited the little email thing to do some *serious* damage which could have happened with no more effort than they already expended. The last one to go around for certain software packages (such as zonealarm) and deleted it if it found it. It could have just as easily done some *serious* damage.
If it were me, I would send a virus out to remove Outlook and install a better (non-MS) email package so these email viru would stop. It would save the MS shops a lot of work and it would save the rest of the world a lot of network bandwidth.
Hey wait a minute... Maybe this email problem was implemented by MS on purpose. Yeah, I think they call it ".NET", or "Hailstorm" or something like that...
[ December 17, 2001: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
jtpenrod:
Thanks VoidMain for the heads-up on that. I was going by what Steve Ballmer said in an interview. If you can't trust a honcho like Ballmer, then who can you trust? ;) :D
Foney:
quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
And Microsoft isn't the fastest at putting out patches to stop this (because it's a fundamental flaw, not one easily patched). And even when they do put out patches companies running MS products rarely apply them company wide. They would rather scramble like chickens with their heads cut off.
[ December 17, 2001: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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Well never in my experince has a patch for microsoft taken any longer to release then a patch for any other OS. As for the companys running Ms rarely apply patches, goes back to the statement that your OS is only as good as the person running it.
Foney:
I still havent seen a good arguement on why *nix is better than NT/2k. :confused:
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Foney:
I still havent seen a good arguement on why *nix is better than NT/2k. :confused:
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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink (unless you're Bill Gates).
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