Spy der Mann's Journal: Why Windows sucks, always had, and always be

(copied from /. post)

Somebody posted:
Without Antivirus, how do you know it's "clean as a whistle"? It's kind of a schrodinger's cat scenario; you haven't looked.

He was replying to a post that said that if your computer is infected it's because you're a moron. Still, his answer seems to me insufficient.

Have an antivirus and your computer will be clean? That's not the point. Windows is more like an abandoned building with open doors and windows, and wait! It has a friggin' bag of CAT FOOD inside. This isn't Schroedinger's cat... it's much more like "Garfield and Friends".

If Windows had been truly well-designed, we wouldn't need antiviruses IN THE FIRST PLACE.

In my times, you caught a virus because you copied some friend's warez game floppy. NOT because you accidentally left your PC connected to the internet.

Wanna know why windows sucks?

*AHEM!* (clears throat)

I searched about "automatic" services on windows. For instance, almost all of the windows services run on something called RPC (Remote Procedure Call service - and this means network). And many of them are turned on by default (unless you're BlackViper, and 99.9% of the Windows users haven't even heard of the guy).

Furthermore, the default protocol for networks is TCP/IP, meaning anyone can access your network (or machine) directly from the internet. There's no "drawbridge" that could be turned off or something to keep you safe.

Windows is naturally an INTERNET-VULNERABLE operating system. Is it the Joe users' fault that his machine is practically a virus lighthouse with lotsa services running on the background, listening to specific ports, _AND_ being vulnerable to buffer overflows, for Norton's sake?

Furthermore. BillyGates and company, have always had this "run code on data" fetish. Why do you think Microsoft Word viruses came to life? A text file cannot infect your machine because it's data, not code.

And don't get me started on ActiveX, i'm sick enough of this filth and i just finished eating.

Spiderman is that you ?

[lb16]

I'm a former employee of MS. I worked on the PSS Security Incident Response team. It was so frustrating working with such a poorly designed product. The fact that the PSS team was necessary was pretty silly to begin with in my eyes. I was wondering if you also worked on that same team at one time. I used to work with a guy who went by Spiderman. Just wondering, say the name and read the comments, sounded familiar so thought possibly I might know you. Live in Texas? If so hit me up, if not well sorry to ta