Re: JB Hi-Fi website served malware (News Article)

2009-12-03 Thread Morgan Storey
You will still have people running everything as root so they don't have to sudo/gksudo. Heck I found a https web-app that requires you in Linux to run your browser with sudo. You would also still have flawed development, and flawed drivers that are closed source as the manufacturer doesn't want ev

Re: JB Hi-Fi website served malware (News Article)

2009-12-02 Thread Andrew Swinn
> Is nina wrong or are we justified in saying that "These > hackers would go out of business if people just stopped using > Windows." ? Unfortunately careless users will always allow vulnerabilities. But, I am willing for the world to swap to Linux for a few years to tr

Re: JB Hi-Fi website served malware (News Article)

2009-12-02 Thread David Fawcett
No OS is free from hacking. But some are more secure than others. Is linux more secure than windows? It's really hard to say until it is the most popular and is really tested. However I think that it's not an unreasonable argument to say that linux is more agile than windows because it is open so

JB Hi-Fi website served malware (News Article)

2009-12-02 Thread IKT
Hello all, Some nice comments on linux: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/jb-hifi-website-served-malware-20091201-k2p3.html?comments=23#comments "Visitors to jbhifi.com.au reported being automatically redirected to Chinese websites carrying malware. Similar issues affected JB Hi-Fi's