Re: How do I protect myself...

No, he is talking about your mal-ware comment.

It was a fairly sophmoric remark.

Microsoft is in the unenviable percieved position of being the big evil
company with the most insecure platform in the world.

We both know that as Macs get a larger install base and Linux grows in
poularity they are becoming bigger and bigger targets, but that since MS
systems are so proliferant, they are they prime target of unsavory
individuals.

Because they are so successful and widely installed there are more people
trying, and succedding in breaking into thier systems.

Hence the perception.

Now they have to try and mitigate security risks.

They can either do nothing and have evreyione saying how MS doesn't care
about its users.

Or they can devote substantial resources to constantly trying to conteract
not only actual threats, but potential threats. And then to get the system
patched before any type of breach happens.

(to all those tards out there who are thinking: "these breaches shouldn't be
possible in the first place", go write an OS that can do what XP can do or
STFU)

Ocasionaly a patch causes issues for a small percentage of users. It will
happen.

To call these patches malware is an misleading and fairly ingnorant
statement. I know you usually are niether, so take it as constructive
critisism.


I am not defending some of the stupid things that have come down, like the
recent patch that messed up systems with the HP share to web software
installed.

That was a silly oversight.

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MCT, Certified Cheese Master

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What?
Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!
What can you do thats longer?
"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jone Doe wrote:
"Untested mal-ware"? If you don't like the way MS notifies you, change
that. You don't want it to do it automatically, turn it off. But please
don't say things which are not true. It makes you look like an idiot.
Unless, or course, you are.



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