Re: OT: Update Virus Checker

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:13:47 GMT, "Daniel-San" <replytotheNG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>"Russell D."wrote...
>> Daniel-San wrote:
>>> "rw" wrote in message ...
>>>
>>>>In general, OS X is intrinsically FAR more secure than Windows, which
>>>>IMO is a massive kludge of an OS, full of dangerous flaws due to backward
>>>>compatibility constraints and just plain poor design.
>>>
>>>
>>> Truly curious here, why?
>>>
>> The biggest reason is simply numbers. The crackers that have no life and
>> get their jollies from writing the viruses, trojans, etc. that exploit
>> flaws in computer code want to do damage to as many computers as they can
>> so the pick on the most common--Microsoft operating systems and
>> applications.
>>
>> Also, by design, many other operating systems like Unix, Linux and OS X
>> are less prone to damage from attacks. For example, the laptop that I am
>> writing this on is running Suse Linux. Linux has two main levels of login.
>> "Root" is the highest level. Only "root" can make changes to the operating
>> system that can affect the way the the system runs. As long as I am not
>> logged in as "root," even if I were to open some email attachment that
>> contained some Linux attack it could do no damage to the operating system
>> because my normal user login does not have permission to make changes. I
>> hope that is at least as clear as mud.
>
>
>:-) Slightly more clear than mud. Is this what Microsoft was attempting to
>duplicate with XP's differing levels of access, or is it deeper than just
>administrator/user?

It's what MS is attempting to duplicate with Vista.
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