Re: Get your Mac, it's raining Trojans

On Saturday 08 July 2006 03:10 am, Michael Stevens had this to say in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Michael Stevens wrote:
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.

I take your lack of response as a melding of the minds as far as the
observations I and many others have expressed would be the ultimate
solution.
Any OS that gains a users majority status and has the majority of software
written for the platform will be the # 1 target of the degenerates that
want to exploit the verunabilites that are present in any OS or the
software written for the platform.

Michael,

No, I disagree. Vulnerabilities are exploited because they are there.
Windoze boxes are attacked because it is so easy and possible to attack
this toy operating system because it is so full of vulnerabilities.
GNU/Linux isn't attacked anywhere near as often because it simply doesn't
have the vulnerabilities that leave it open for attack even though so many
Linux boxes are open as servers on the Net. End of discussion and end of
any further responses from me on this subject. There is none quite so blind
as one who refuses to see.

"Anti-virus firm McAfee released protection for its 200,000th ever malware
threat this week."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/06/malware_milestone/

Go and count the malware threats IN THE WILD (not is some lab somewhere)
targeting GNU/Linux. Anywhere close to 200,000? Close to 1,000? Close to
100?





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