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Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
Reply #15 - 01. Oct 2007 at 22:57

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Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
Reply #16 - 02. Oct 2007 at 09:03

Entwood wrote on 01. Oct 2007 at 22:49:

Gert rid of IE and use Firefox .... easier, better, less buggy and it ain't micros**t Wink

The first 2 are opinion, the last is proven to be untrue - in the last 12 months, FF has had way more critical CERT warnings than IE...

Use Firefox if thats what you prefer, but do not get suckered in to the open source mindset that it is the most secure/bug free stuff out there, as Firefox actually has the worse record of the popular browsers...

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Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
Reply #17 - 02. Oct 2007 at 19:30

the arsewipes took two lots of payments off of me for a microsoft one monitoring system. and could i find a contact number for them?? so emailed them about a fault (no options for "you are total turds and have billed me twice by mistake") this was 6 months ago and still not done anything about it.........these people drain me of the will to live..............

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Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
Reply #18 - 02. Oct 2007 at 22:03

TheBoy wrote on 02. Oct 2007 at 09:03:

Entwood wrote on 01. Oct 2007 at 22:49:

Gert rid of IE and use Firefox .... easier, better, less buggy and it ain't micros**t Wink

The first 2 are opinion, the last is proven to be untrue - in the last 12 months, FF has had way more critical CERT warnings than IE...

Use Firefox if thats what you prefer, but do not get suckered in to the open source mindset that it is the most secure/bug free stuff out there, as Firefox actually has the worse record of the popular browsers...

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Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
Reply #19 - 02. Oct 2007 at 22:06

TheBoy wrote on 02. Oct 2007 at 09:03:

Use Firefox if thats what you prefer, but do not get suckered in to the open source mindset that it is the most secure/bug free stuff out there, as Firefox actually has the worse record of the popular browsers...

And incidentally, the Linux kernel has had loads more CERT warnings that the Windows Kernels in the last 12 months, and that includes a new OS released in Nov (corporates)/Feb (Consumers)...

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Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
Reply #20 - 02. Oct 2007 at 22:29

TheBoy wrote on 02. Oct 2007 at 22:06:

TheBoy wrote on 02. Oct 2007 at 09:03:

Use Firefox if thats what you prefer, but do not get suckered in to the open source mindset that it is the most secure/bug free stuff out there, as Firefox actually has the worse record of the popular browsers...

And incidentally, the Linux kernel has had loads more CERT warnings that the Windows Kernels in the last 12 months, and that includes a new OS released in Nov (corporates)/Feb (Consumers)...

There is a school of thought that both FF and Linux now have enough "general users" for the idiots that do these things to think it is now worth "attacking" .. up until now the user base was too small for it to be worth it ... which is used to explain the recent rise in CERT warnings ...

Now how true that is I have no idea .. the logic makes sense .. I don't see latest versions of FF/ Linux suddenly being LESS secure than older versions !!

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Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
Reply #21 - 02. Oct 2007 at 22:32

Entwood wrote on 02. Oct 2007 at 22:29:

TheBoy wrote on 02. Oct 2007 at 22:06:

TheBoy wrote on 02. Oct 2007 at 09:03:

Use Firefox if thats what you prefer, but do not get suckered in to the open source mindset that it is the most secure/bug free stuff out there, as Firefox actually has the worse record of the popular browsers...

And incidentally, the Linux kernel has had loads more CERT warnings that the Windows Kernels in the last 12 months, and that includes a new OS released in Nov (corporates)/Feb (Consumers)...

There is a school of thought that both FF and Linux now have enough "general users" for the idiots that do these things to think it is now worth "attacking" .. up until now the user base was too small for it to be worth it ... which is used to explain the recent rise in CERT warnings ...

Now how true that is I have no idea .. the logic makes sense .. I don't see latest versions of FF/ Linux suddenly being LESS secure than older versions !!

Yes, I suscribe to that theory - remember the flaws they are finding now generally affect earlier versions as well. I always said Windows took security flack due to its popularity...

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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t! Reply #22 - 02. Oct 2007 at 22:33 Incidentally, of all the Internet facing servers I have supported, a few without proper firewalls in front, the only ones that have been compromised through the OS itself have all been Linux ones...
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Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
Reply #23 - 02. Oct 2007 at 22:40

TheBoy wrote on 02. Oct 2007 at 22:33:

Incidentally, of all the Internet facing servers I have supported, a few without proper firewalls in front, the only ones that have been compromised through the OS itself have all been Linux ones...

I was at a security conference about 2 years ago when one of the speakers actually stated that his "prefered" server OS was a windows one ... his reasoning was that most high end servers used linux based OS, therefore any "serious" attacker would assume a windows based server to hold no worthwhile data and so not bother !!!! I won't comment on how THAT line of reasoning went down with the audience ..

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