Re: Get your Mac, it's raining Trojans

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NoStop wrote:
On Thursday 06 July 2006 03:41 am, Michael Stevens had this to say in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Mistoffolees wrote:
Pez D Spencer wrote:

sophos must not be doing too well in the av business.


Au contraire...all of the AV vendors are doing quite well.
The problem is that the Windows operating environment has
become too dated, is too cluttered (or bloated) and consists
of too many patches, all kludged together. And Vista is no
better...just more of the same. Extremely vulnerable.

What is really needed is an entirely new operating system from
the bottom up along with standardized developer tools, rules
for devices, etc. But that sounds a lot like a Mac and OS X,
doesn't it?

And another monopoly? :-)
Whatever system becomes the system of the majority will be targeted
by the miscreants that write the Trojans, virus, malware, scumware,
etc..
The solution is to unite the braintrust of all platforms to identify
and eradicate all malicious threats as soon as they show their sorry
prescience.

Well we've already witnessed how well the "braintrust" from
MickeyMouse has done. MickeyMouse has constantly fought the tide of
standards, always striking out on its own with its proprietary
software model purposely breaking standards. Those on the other side
of the equation have already figured out how to keep malware at bay,
and that is based on the security model of *NIX. Only MickeyMouse is
outside and needs to reassess its whole "operating system" model.
But, I don't believe it really cares.


The Internet is a vital and essential resource to a majority
of the worldwide population and any attempt to interrupt that
resource should be considered as a terrorist action and should be
dealt with in the same due diligence.

The first step is obviously unplugging all Windoze machines from the
Internet. Just as the article suggests.

You are partially right in your observation, but it is also true with the
other braintrusts holding the keys to the solution.
No OS is safe if the user is negeligent in securing their system.
The combined OS community has a obligation to unite and focus on redirecting
the writers of the malicious code affecting any OS to direct their energy
and expertise to positive resources. Any OS that is the current #1 will also
be the targeted OS for finding exploits to it's weakness.
All the Mac and Linux versions I have installled and especially the Linux
distros have almost daily security updates you need to apply to secure your
data.

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