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



> Actually, you're the one who is dead wrong. Windows is different due to
> the
> way it is used: as an administrator with all protections turned off. Any
> process, including the browser, can write to any part of the system at any
> time.
>
> A linux user can't catch a virus from a file because the linux hasn't
> the ability to modify system files in order for the virus to propagate.
> The linux user in the web browser can't install spyware that intercepts
> network activity.
>
> As a windows user, you just don't know any better.

"Security is, as we all know, a process, not a product. So when you use
Linux, you're not using a perfectly safe OS. There is no such thing. But
Linux and Mac OS X establish a more secure footing than Microsoft Windows,
one that makes it far harder for viruses to take hold in the first place,
but if one does take hold, harder to damage the system, but if one succeeds
in damaging the system, harder to spread to other machines and repeat the
process. When it comes to email-borne viruses and worms, Linux may not be
completely immune - after all, nothing is immune to human gullibility and
stupidity - but it is much more resistant. To mess up a Linux box, you need
to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. I
know which one I'll trust. How about you? "

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/188


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