Is Your OS Tough Enough? 597
LE UI Guy writes "A Denver Post article examines the Internet 'horrors' Windows, Mac and Linux users face simply being connected to the Internet with only an out-of-box configuration. Over the course of a single week the machines were scanned 46,255 times. The test didn't look into additional security threats caused by surfing the web or reading e-mail, just the connection itself."
My advice. (Score:0, Funny)
Of course (Score:5, Funny)
Not News (Score:5, Funny)
This news isn't news. What's news is this news is in the news!
Re:Of course (Score:5, Funny)
Now open sendmail (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yet again... (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory: On piles and piles of money. :-)
-1 Off topic (Score:5, Funny)
I got stuck in the self-checkout line at Walmart once, behind a lady who had this same problem.
Don't bother reading the article (Score:5, Funny)
Very thought provoking and innovative information indeed.
Re:Of course (Score:3, Funny)
You must be refering to OpenBSD! If only those dogs could understand human language, we could tell them that those gates will never be opened. ; )
Warez (Score:2, Funny)
New reality show (Score:3, Funny)
"Coming up, we'll have Windows eat a big bowl of fried portscans!!!"
*circus music*
"And after the break, Linux will jump off of the gigantic Mount Exploit!"
*dark piano music*
(Reality check): It would probably fall off the air for requiring someone to think, though...
Virus Scan (Score:5, Funny)
From what I remember in Tron, this visually looks very cool. Digital warriors fighting on a neon grid, etc.
I'm pretty stumped, though. I tried to get my box pwned eight times, just to see the digital battle. I thought at the least Norton Antivirus would sent a digital probe destroyer bot out to eradicate the trojans. But all that happened was my computer got really slow, and pop-ups kept showing up, advertising herbal virility pills for men.
Come to think of it, Hollywood movies never seem to match up with what my computer does. That's it, I'm going to stop believing them movies and start reading Wikipedia instead.
What, no BeOS?!? (Score:2, Funny)
Kablamo (Score:2, Funny)
Any version of Windows with any amount of service packs and/or updates is a scary thing to be online with. It's like having a grenade launcher in close-quarter combat. Boom.
Has he ever used a computer? (Score:1, Funny)
"Microsoft is racing to roll out its new Longhorn operating system in 2006.
But for the moment, it's sticking with Windows, for which it rolled out a new patch Tuesday."
I don't think so.
*nix will be a major target of worms in the future (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft might have something with Windows Longhorn, since the entire API outside of the kernel will be written in C# completely sandboxed in a CLR, much like Java.
Combined with a monolithic auto-update system, Microsoft has no intentions of repeating the problems of Windows 2000/XP when they release Longhorn, much like they had no intention of repeating the problems of stability they had with Windows 95/98/ME when they designed Windows 2000/XP. For as much as they do, they mostly won with stability in 2000/XP, and they could win again, despite their market share, by sacrificing RAM (480MB commit charge, 1GB recommended) and processing power by implementing the .NET framework for their entire API.
I honestly hope open source has something to compete for their future desktop environments, or else desktop Linux could be relegated to processors too slow to deal with the overhead.
Gotta love your spyware programs for Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Of course Claria/Gator [claria.com] is also offering a free version of their spyware program, and it's not beta - it's an official, stable release, available to users from all over the world, and with no date limits!!
There are also other known spyware providers out there, all you have to do is to search the web for some pr0n and warez, and there you go.
Re:New reality show (Score:2, Funny)
The Spin from Redmond (Score:1, Funny)
Windows XP with Service Pack 1 dynamically adapted to become immune to further attacks by the Blaster and Sasser worms in only 18 minutes!
Within one hour Windows XP with Service Pack 1 had apprised the situation and chosen to join the winning side!
Windows XP with Service Pack 1 single handedly fought 1600x as many viral foes as its nearest competitor! Yet it bravely continues to withstand the onslaught of its most cunning viral foe, the GPL!
The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Windows XP... Be assured, Windows XP is safe, protected. Microsofties are heroes.
Re:Not News (Score:5, Funny)
So then it is news. Otherwise the news that it's in the news couldn't be news.
truer words were never spoken.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Of course (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yet again... (Score:3, Funny)
You must be new here.