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Story: Windows worm numbers 'skyrocket'Total Replies: 10
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tracyanne

Jan 19, 2009
4:34 PM EDT 		This article points directly at the real problem... Microsoft Windows. Naturally it fails to mention the real Solution.
jdixon

Jan 19, 2009
4:58 PM EDT 		> Naturally it fails to mention the real Solution.

If they did it would be to use a Mac. :(
tracyanne

Jan 19, 2009
5:04 PM EDT 		I said the real solution
vainrveenr

Jan 19, 2009
5:15 PM EDT
Quoting:This article points directly at the real problem... Microsoft Windows. Naturally it fails to mention the real Solution.
OTOH, somewhat ironic that the Microsoft Windows-centric _BBC_ is the agent actually reporting this story here. As Schroder wrote less than three months ago, within her Linux Today Blog 'Ubuntu Brings the BBC to Linux'
Quoting:You might the recall the ongoing uproar over the BBC's dissing of its non-Windows-using viewers, its defective math on how many Linux users were among their viewers, the nasty DRM-encumbered iPlayer, and their general bad attitude about being willing to buy into DRM-restricted streaming media, even though they are a publicly-funded broadcaster.

The saga is still unfolding, and DRM technologies are still stuck on being invasive, intrusive, shoddy, and ineffective. Who designs these things? Are the bright developers being foiled by PHBs? Or are the smart developers all busy doing other things, and the only ones left are the janitors? Who are plenty intelligent, but not hip to coding. Or maybe they are hip to coding and making DRM sucky on purpose. At any rate it is lame that in this glorious year 2008 of the 21st century, we are still hearing the same stupid excuses about why non-Windows users don't matter.
(source: http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/10/bbbc-totem-ubun.html)

Indeed, even the almighty BBC may lose its reliance upon Microsoft's various "solutions" at some point in the very near future.
qcimushroom

Jan 20, 2009
1:21 AM EDT 		The real solution is to put Windows back to role is was built for....

to sit on the desktop and NOT to be connected to another computer, let alone the internet.

If you are going to connect to the internet don't use Windows!
tracyanne

Jan 20, 2009
1:49 AM EDT 		Given that a good proportion of those worms are propagated via USB devices, it might be a good idea to not connect anything to the Windows computers, not even the power.
qcimushroom

Jan 20, 2009
2:07 AM EDT 		I tend to agree..

If only the rest of the world would.
gus3

Jan 20, 2009
9:04 AM EDT 		IIRC, Windows NT 4 Server was POSIX certified, as long as the network cable wasn't plugged in.
bigg

Jan 20, 2009
1:00 PM EDT 		@qci

Then why use Windows at all? The only good reason to do so anymore is that you need to interact with others. All you get with Windows is fees, licensing restrictions, and much higher hardware requirements if the computer is isolated from the rest of the world.
qcimushroom

Jan 20, 2009
2:13 PM EDT 		@ bigg

Some hardware ( scanners, printers, and other specialized hardware ) do not have the equivalent driver and program support in Linux. I use what works the best for me. For accessing the internet only Linux machines are used!
jdixon

Jan 20, 2009
2:17 PM EDT 		> IIRC, Windows NT 4 Server was POSIX certified, as long as the network cable wasn't plugged in.

Windows NT 4 predated USB devices. :(

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