You guys have left out the user group and permissions thing.. If you DID get a virus of sorts on your system and you got it while running an email client as your user login.
You can only trash your own files (Ie files you have permissions to access) not the system files.. In windows, although 2000/XP is better then previous windows, it still defaults to making everyone an administrator with full access to everything. So if you get a virus, it can trash the whole system if that what it was written to do. rgds Franki >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn >Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2003 6:25 PM > >On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 14:06, Luis-Miguel Astudillo wrote: >> Dear Stephen, >> >> I work on large scale environments that have Unix (SUN/AIX/HP), >Mainframe >> and of course Windows PCs and Servers (from 20 to 300K users) >world-wide. >> My clients are provincial Governments, Airlines and in the >Financial field. >> >> I know that Windows has some issues regarding security and some Linux >> Distros as well. >> I'm a paying customer of support with Red-Hat 9.0 and Suse 8.2 >Pro, also use >> Mandrake 9.1. >> >> Since Feb.2003 Red-Hat has issued close 85 security fixes of security >> vulnerability. Is Linux really more secure than Windows ? AIX >and Solaris >> are more stable and have less few issues. >> >> Just a few examples of those issues on Linux : ><WHACK> > >As stated before - it requires too much time, effort, thought and >strategy to "take down" a unix/linux network - let alone a single >machine. With Microsoft products - especially when every single flaw is >"road mapped" for you, it's infinitely easier - requiring very little >time, very little knowledge, very little forethought, and very little >strategy to take down 50% of the world's Windows machines...
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