Re: XP has no significant bugs that any significant number of users want fixed


<learning@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >You have made an unequivocal statement and you are dead wrong. There is
> >nothing special about Windows, other than its popularity. Cell phones
> >are vulnerable. Wake up and smell the coffee.
>
> Charles, I disagree. You don't seem to have the understanding of the
> subsystem in windows, and how it is exploited by hackers.


Root kits and other hacking tools exist for non MS based products as well.
Once you have obtained root access, you are in and free to cause whatever
havoc you want. Linux based viruses have been demonstrated before (usually
made by non-malicious people simply trying to prove or disprove that Linux
is fundamentally immune). Linux is clearly not fully immune. It may (or
may not be) more or less vunlnerable than MS products. Linux is not
typically the target of hackers, most likely because it hasn't become
socially acceptable and cool to make malicious Linux products.


> If what I say is wrong, how come such a large majority of viruses can only
> propagate via Outlook. Using any other mail reader stops those viruses
> dead in their tracks.


Because these products were designed to exploit Outlook and not other
products. A virus that nature designed to infect certain species of
reptiles typically will not infect humans. That isn't to say that viruses
designed to effect humans can't/don't exist.


> Using Mozilla will basically eliminate spyware. Those apps take advantage
> of flaws and weaknesses inherent only in Microsoft products.


True, but that isn't proof that Mozilla doesn't have its own inherent flaws
and weaknesses that could be exploited. Whoever is top dawg is most likely
to be targetted.




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