Comment Re:Closed source == unknown security (Score 1) 381
--- Yep. And it happens all the time to CS students at colleges with unix shell accounts, but nothing truly awful seems to result. Oh that's right, in Windows, *everyone* is the superuser and has access to everything. Great design. --
Not in NT you don't.. Nice try.
Just because you have the common sense not to run all email attachemnts doesn't mean the whole world does too.
This is not a virus.. It is a trojan. It is not exploiting vulnerabilities in the OS, it exploits human beings that are stupid enough to run the attached executable. The only way to avoid it would be to reject all email attachemnts at the email gateway. Not run a different OS.
It also has nothing to do with Open Source vs. Closed Source. Ask Robert Tappan Morris.
And, if you think your system is completely hack-proof then you really are as silly as you sound.
Not in NT you don't.. Nice try.
Just because you have the common sense not to run all email attachemnts doesn't mean the whole world does too.
This is not a virus.. It is a trojan. It is not exploiting vulnerabilities in the OS, it exploits human beings that are stupid enough to run the attached executable. The only way to avoid it would be to reject all email attachemnts at the email gateway. Not run a different OS.
It also has nothing to do with Open Source vs. Closed Source. Ask Robert Tappan Morris.
And, if you think your system is completely hack-proof then you really are as silly as you sound.
