Re: lsass.exe
From: Bruce Chambers (bruce_a_chambers_at_h0tmail.com)
Date: 08/15/04
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:49:21 -0600
Greetings --
Any consumer of _any_ product that assumes that any sort of
business - whether a software manufacturer/vendor, or a shoe store -
has the _consumer's_ best interests in mind is drowning in naiveté.
The real world is not a warm and friendly place, and no one is going
to - nor should they - protect the consumer from himself. Only
someone who has lived his entire life completely beyond the reach of
the mass news media could possibly not know that the Internet is a
dangerous "place," and that both a firewall and antivirus application
are essential, regardless of OS. It's the fault of the "newbies" (for
not knowing the Internet is dangerous - regardless of OS) for the
simple reason that they've purchased and put into use a product
without doing the least bit of product research to determine if the
product is suitable to their goals and safe to use in their particular
circumstances. It doesn't matter whether they're buying an OS or a
chainsaw - it's they're responsibility to learn how to safely use the
product. Personally, I'm sick and tired of being warned of obvious
hazards by every corporation out there, simply because a significant
proportion of the population is too lazy too think for themselves. I
find it especially annoying to have to struggle, with each new OS, to
remove or bypass the dumbing-down and so-called "security" features
that keep getting added to protect people from themselves.
Bruce Chambers
-- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH "Al Smith" <invalid@address.com> wrote in message news:WmzTc.95278$Np3.4578841@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca... > > Most people make the presumption that Microsoft wouldn't sell them > software that was unsafe to use *in the state in which Microsoft > sold it*. It seems to me that this is the reasonable expectation to > have, in the absence of other knowledge about the dangers of the > Internet. Newbies don't know a thing about viruses, or computer > security. Neither did you, or I, until at some point in our lives we > learned by experience. > > My own view is that Microsoft should be criticized for selling an OS > that cannot be used in the condition in which it is sold. It should > be safe to do an install of Windows XP, and allow it to immediately > connect to the Internet (which it urgently seeks to do), without > risking viruses and trojans. It isn't safe. Windows XP must be > tweaked and modified before it can be made safe. It's not the fault > of newbies that they don't know this. Why should they?
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