On Monday 23 May 2005 10:51, Richard Chang wrote:
Rony Bill [ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk] wrote:
Some questions:
Why are viruses and trojans not created for linux? When linux overtakes windows in client machines, will there be a possibility of viruses and trojans being created for linux too?
If a linux user surfs the net without a firewall and with java scripting active in his browser, will his system be prone to hacking attempts and key logging/password grabbing?
Rubbish.
Lets look at the issue in a practical way rather than randomly curse all windows users/installers. The OS is selected by the user. The installer has to follow market forces.
The last sentence needs to add "into the big black hole"
I totally agree with Rony. May be in future when Linux will rule the roost, they may have a million more virii and worms than there currently are on Windoze.
Yeah so in the mean time you can enjoy all that s@#$ available on windows totally gratis.
As there will be many more poeple who can see the code freely, there will be more experts who can exploit the code.
And even more who can fix it. While on windows you dont even need the code to create exploits. That is one great plus for ease of (mis) use i humbly concede.
And anything popular will have its own sworn enemies. Like Windoze has. What can prevent M$ to exploit the code of Linux and invest in maligning
Man do you live on Europa (yeah it's habitable). M$ spends cold hard cash funding shills (why dont u try for some) to write fud and case studies to malign GNU/Linux. Some idiots are even convinced to not uninstall M$ crap after reading those. And a few find the time to ACTUALLY defend the pile. HA Ha ha. You made my day.
or crashing Linux like all the Windoze haters do right now. After all it is free for all.
^ That should be fee for all. Windoze haters crashing windows ?. the crap fails to install on my chinese laptop with american cpu and korean ram and singapore hd and indian carrybag. The crashing happens later. But on my desktop I am in awe of windows parapsccho capabilities - my mere prescence makes it crash. Linux fails miserable to shut itself off in the prescence of linux haters. Once more i humbly admit that this feature is absent in GNU/Linux.
rgds jtd
On Monday, May 23, 2005 2:40 PM sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
Man do you live on Europa (yeah it's habitable). M$ spends cold hard cash funding shills (why dont u try for some) to write fud and case studies to malign GNU/Linux. Some idiots are even convinced to not uninstall M$ crap after reading those. And a few find the time to ACTUALLY defend the pile. HA Ha ha. You made my day.
I am not saying that we shall not try linux. The case in point is that "may be" one fine day you get up and see that your LINUX Web Server has crashed because of some virii. Any system left open ( by open it doesn't mean Open source. I mean open to attacks, insecure) can be compromised. Be it WINDOZE or LINUX !!!. You may be a big programmer!!!. But I am not.
Who the hell will my friendly neighbourhood buddy go to incase his LINUX system is compromised when he doesn't know what is a "VARIABLE" what is an "ALIAS" or more so when he doesn't want to know or doesn't have time to know.
That should be fee for all. Windoze haters crashing windows ?. the crap fails to install on my chinese laptop with american cpu and korean ram and singapore hd and indian carrybag. The crashing happens later. But on my desktop I am in awe of windows parapsccho capabilities - my mere prescence makes it crash. Linux fails miserable to shut itself off in the prescence of linux haters. Once more i humbly admit that this feature is absent in GNU/Linux.
You can run from it but you cannot hide from it. However we or rather you would like to put it thru. Windoze can be used by the idiot sitting next to us but linux needs me to be around for help. Like it or not. I am not encouraging WINDOZE or M$.
Who knows what the future holds for us. First there was Tuberculosis, then there was Cancer and now HIV/AIDS. Yesterday was WINDOWS/M$ today it is half WINDOWS/M$ and half LINUX. Tomorrow may be LINUX/who knows may be some money s&^king $$$company$$$ using and deploying LINUX. And the day-after may be something other.
History has a habit of repeating itself. Who knows what is going to happen tomorrow any way !!!.
regards,
rc
History has a habit of repeating itself. Who knows what is going to happen tomorrow any way !!!.
^^^^^^^^^ To put it more succinctly, history doesn't have a habit of repeating. History repeats because people don't study history.
And to all the nay-sayers that viruses in Windows exist only because it is popular, read the fine print. Unix-like operating systems have been around for decades now. The unix environment and architecture is much older that Windoze offers. So theoretically, there should be more virii and exploits in the GNU/Linux world isn't it? The reason why this doesn't happen is because of something we call "Architecture".
If you (betatesters et al) want Windows to be virus-free like GNU/Linux and other Unix-ish distros ask Microsoft to implement stuff based on the POSIX standard.
Regads,
ah
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