Re: Here we go again, more virus and spyware
- From: foghollow <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:05:33 +0100
In article <B3UQi.8765$th2.6054@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, no@xxxxxxxx
says...
"foghollow" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.217d42669a56794f98979c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <SfqQi.2053$5c.636@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, no@xxxxxxxx
says...
Other products don't require such forms of protection. But computers are
very poor in this respect.
Do you lock your car, close the windows, put valuables out of sight in the
trunk?
And your house?
Yes, I do. So did my father. And his father. And everyone else did, too.
Theives are and were a well-known threat. And doors and windows are a
well-known vulnerability. Those things have changed little over the
centuries.
But in the computer, the thieves are non-obvious. The threats are invisible.
The vulnerabilities are, for most, non-obvious. And everything changes year
by year. It's not easy for most people to learn it and keep up with it.
But it's in the news regularly. I don't think I know anybody who hasn't either had or known
somebody who had trouble with malware. It's literally common knowledge.
People don't get better, not even over a span of a thousand years.
So the products should be better. Sure, that's a hollow wish. But the fault
lies with lame equipment, not with lame people.
Well, of course, we never had this trouble with star networks on mainframes. But that was before
there was an internet, really. I agree that Windows is basically not very good - Vista may be better,
but there are security patches out already, so maybe not. There's always Linux...
But whatever you build into the software, certain stuff has to be openable to be able to admin the
OS. And that will always create a door that the user chooses to leave open or not.
--
Snob? Were I a snob, I wouldn't be talking to you.
.
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