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Re: [PLUG] Unix vs Dos for Virus Content
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> - security: windoze has no security.
Not quite. Win9X/WinMe don't, you're right about that. NT does; Win2K is
much better and more Unix-like in that regard (they even have a "run as"
command - you know, a Win equivalent of "sudo")
> on *NIX, however, receiving a
> virus will be as a user in 99% of the cases, and a user can't really
> break anything. this really concerns itself with viruses.
> - automation: this is the main point against worms on *NIX. while
> micro$oft got that concept of usability slightly wrong and made
> their $oftware so "powerfully capable," the newest worms don't even
> have to be executed anymore... just looking at them will infect the
> computer.
Which can be minimized on Windows with some Outlook settings, as I mentioned
in an earlier email. The point I'm making is ... there exist mechanisms to
LESSEN (not eliminate) these types of stupidities in Windows, but they're
not enabled by default. So it's easier to make viruses/virii/whatever term
:-) on a Windows platform - because there either ARE no mechanisms
(Win9x/WinMe), or most users don't use them properly (WinNT/2K/Office
users). And even if they did, it's still not as secure as Unix can be made
to be.
> sure, on *NIX there existed a vi-autocommands exploit and
> other similar stuff, but in general it is safe to assume that there
> exists no way of getting a user to proliferate a worm by looking at
> it. furthermore, windoze provides its crappy API which everyone
> knows, so it's a standardized platform for viruses. on *NIX it's
> already hard to think about small parts of a collective number of
> systems being standardized or similar.
> - popularity: society screwed up, everyone is running windoze. so it'd
> be boring to write a virus for another OS simply because it wouldn't
> have as much impact and wouldn't proliferate as fast.
>
> there are surely others, but i think these are the main ones...
>
> martin
>
> [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net
> --
> scintillation is not always identification for an auric substance.
>
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