On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 13:42 -0500, J. Craig Woods wrote:
> Sevatio wrote:
> >
> > The worst part is listening to mainstream news talk about the
> > hopelessness of protecting against viruses and internet-borne attacks
> > while not mentioning a word about how Linux can make this a mute point.
> >
> > Sevatio
> >
>
> Sevatio,
>
> I couldn't agree with you more. This is the "Great Secret" that
> Micro$oft, Symantec, and many other big software companies, work so hard
> to keep secret. Just consider what they stand to lose, in revenue, if
> more people understood how Linux protects them against so many of the
> everyday exploits that MicroThrash is prone to.
>
> Long live the penquin,
> drjung
It's not THAT easy. Sure there are a lot of ppl who would change their
home and office OS if they (or their bosses) knew more about the
alternative to M$.
But there is the majority of real dumb ppl. I remember a case where a
lady in USA won a liability case against a manufacturer of microwave
ovens because the manual of the oven did not state explicitely that you
must not put your cat in the oven for drying after a rainy day. She
sucked millions of $$ from the manufacturer just because he did not be
aware of dumb folks like her.
Same with a lot of virus damages. Everybody who can read or just listen
to the radio or tv should know that he MUST not open unwanted mails with
attachments. Alas, they do and complain about the bad boys.
In Germany we have a big issue right now about so-called 'hidden
Dialers'. When you surf to special sites (mostly porn sites) it can
happen, that the site offers free access. You just have to DL a 'special
software' to access the site. In reality this software is a dialer which
changes your DialUpNetwork phone numbers to a so-called 0190-number.
THose numbers charge up to 3,60 EURO per minute and some even charge
several hundreds of EURO per dial! The fees are debited with your phone
bill by German Telekom.
This is widely known in Germany by now. But what do ppl do? They keep on
downloading 'Free Access' dialers and if charged they run to the police
and complain for fraud!
Those ppl will not be cured by another OS.
wobo
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