Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 02, 2006 05:41 AM
[quote] I don't know how you set up your boxes (pretty sloppy procedures you've got there), but it takes at least 30min to compromise a fully patched Windows box. (For a commercial distro like Red Hat, it takes months). [/quote]
But you can't patch it until you connect to the internet...
[quote] To be infected by that, you'd have to be connected to the web directly with an unpatched Windows box. [/quote]
For example, if you just finished installing Windows.
[quote] Even then, I've never been infected by nonsense, since I PREPARE before I install. [/quote]
The fact that such preparation is necessary is a testimony to Windows' insecurity.
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Re:Ubuntu should have a firewall by default
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 02, 2006 05:41 AMI don't know how you set up your boxes (pretty sloppy procedures you've got there), but it takes at least 30min to compromise a fully patched Windows box. (For a commercial distro like Red Hat, it takes months).
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But you can't patch it until you connect to the internet...
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To be infected by that, you'd have to be connected to the web directly with an unpatched Windows box.
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For example, if you just finished installing Windows.
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Even then, I've never been infected by nonsense, since I PREPARE before I install.
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The fact that such preparation is necessary is a testimony to Windows' insecurity.
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