Why Windows...

[azande]

IS A SECURITY NIGHTMARE!

[ChrisA]

Originally posted by azande
IS A SECURITY NIGHTMARE!

Yawn...

I connected to the net once before installing the secure update or switching on the firewall, and caught the Slammer worm - mea culpa.

Apart from that, and one other daft thing I did that left me with several '00 Mb of pirate video on my HDD due to a friendly hacker, I've never had a virus, worm or trojan.

Bottom line: there's a price to pay for everything. I'd rather have to take a few simple precautions to protect myself, and as a result benefit from a colossal amount of choice of hardware and software (commercial or open source), all at competitive prices.

The people who can't or won't take the relevant precautions, have a simple choice - pay more for something else, or put up with what they have and wait for the situation to improve, which it is doing, all the time.

If they pay more, they also get free, gratis, and for nothing, the luxury of looking down their noses at all us sad Windows users who haven't got a Mac.

Meanwhile the rest of us just get on with our work.

So flame away, Mac users, I'm busy writing .NET code... to run on Windows PCs, naturally

Chris

[Dreadful Scathe]

in order to maintain my platform unbiasedness (is that a word ? )

i thought id let you all
have a look at this article


Still think Mirco$oft are a particularly immoral company but thats got nothing to do with security particularly

[CJ]

Beacause it's nice to see the world outside!!

I know Azande comes from a warmer part of the world, but bars just aint gonna cut it here...