Comments on: You reap what you sow

By: prinzzchavo

prinzzchavo — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:22:15 +0000

Hehehe, I got the same impression, it sounds like Al Capone proposing that all mob activities are “Prosecuted and terminated”.

By: prinzzchavo

prinzzchavo — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:20:23 +0000

Congrats, you earned a visit at your own website already, now, if you are happy with the results, stop trolling, please.

By: ajlec2000

ajlec2000 — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:30:22 +0000

That blog is scary. Am I reading too much between the lines? Is Microsoft suggesting that an organization should be created that will get to decide who’s computer gets to connect to the net? If they get an “independent expert” to say Debian or some other OS is unsafe will all systems running that system be blocked? China should love this.

By: William Hales

William Hales — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:50:56 +0000

What? Everyone knows viruses infect your hardware, and are completely platform independent! I plugged an infected mouse into a computer that had never been connected to the internet before, and it told me I had windows.win32 installed when I booted it!

Is is especially odd since I use Debian…

In regard to the above comment, I’d like to add a few things to the infection source list.
* ‘Drive by’ javascript, java, silverlight & other web page exploits that automatically installer malware without any more social engineering needed than visiting the infectious page.
* Transferring work on USB devices. A few of my neighbours have asked me to dis-infect their removable devices that contain a dozen or so copies of X trojan and an autorun file to execute them
* ‘Poisoning’ ( I believe it is called ). If the user uses un-encrypted ( or easily to crack passworded ) wifi you can inject packets of JS into their downloads, possibly of web pages, until desired effects occur.

By: prinzzchavo

prinzzchavo — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:53:56 +0000

I agree too. Linux by itself is, in a way, safer by design, but given that 99% of the security holes come from the human interface…

These Macrosoft leaders do deserve the hate, yes, but I guess they are not about to start crying…

By: Armor Nick

Armor Nick — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:58:21 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree with this comment. While it’s true that Linux has some implementations that are safer than Windows (for example, installing all applications from a single trusted server instead of a multitude of sites)
Ultimately, it’s the user who determines how safe the system is. Not even Linux can remain undamaged if its user downloads everything s/he comes across.

By: Reacocard

Reacocard — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:45:33 +0000

Honestly it’s possible to use modern Windows without (much) risk of infection or hacking. Just follow basic security best practices: keep it behind a hardware firewall (most routers have this by default), keep your passwords secret (and strong), keep your system up-to-date, and be careful what you download or install. If you do all of that, odds are you’ll be just fine. You should do all this on Linux/BSD/Mac/whatever too, for that matter. Just because malware is rare doesn’t mean you should blindly trust Joe Hacker’s magic shell scripts.