What kills me about Vista is this (as Matt Pressley pointed out in his blog):
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=29 Until she stumbled upon a "very severe hole" in the design of UAC (User Account Control) and found out — from Microsoft officials — that the default no-admin setting isn't even a security mechanism anymore…" "[When] you try to run such a program, you get a UAC prompt and you have only two choices: either to agree to run this application as administrator or to disallow running it at all. That means that if you downloaded some freeware Tetris game, you will have to run its installer as administrator, giving it not only full access to all your file system and registry, but also allowing it to load kernel drivers! Why should a Tetris installer be allowed to load kernel drivers?" Good move, MS. Once again they have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Just when you thought they might "get it" you find something like this. Linux rules, but I can't do without a lot of the programs that I have on my Mac. By the way, the latest Mac vs. PC commerical about Vista security is a classic! On 2/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The latest in the hippie-propaganda that is the Mac commercial ....they are laying it down against Vista for its security model ...and how it prompts the users to escalate privileges. Funny ...how Vista modeled itself off the same model that the Mac/Unix/Linux uses. Then again, I use Gentoo... ...I'll see the day when there's a commercial bashing Linux! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Brown Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:18 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list; Hard Cider Hardcore Mac Users Group discussion list Subject: [TriLUG] OT: Mac vs. PC - the 1996 edition! Just in case anyone missed this I can't help but send out the 1996 print version of "Mac vs. PC" advertisement from Apple. My my, PC has gone downhill over the last 11 years and Mac, well, the 1996 version of the Mac looks like he's about to hitchhike to Fire Island, NY for a weekend of whatever it is that goes on out there. Enjoy. http://www.scootinger.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/1996-macaddict-m ac-vs-pc.jpg Greg -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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