On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Tom <1...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Thanks for the off-list help there Marin :) Should help improve my > relationship with my boss :)
Sounds familiar to me... ;-) > Programs need to operate without constantly asking the > users permissions but have they all really been totally re-written so > that they never need SuperUser permissions? I don't think so - with Windows 7 (or XP service pack something don't know exactly), Windows even learned the symlink thing which can help here (however most windows folks still don't know that they can do this now using mklink... ;-) ). > Have you tried surfing with cookies being totally blocked? Even > microsoft.com gives a dozen pop-up asking > you to accept this or that cookie with no real detail about the individual > cookies. It's not only the cookies - on several sites you already have to allow some included third-party web-site-java-scripting (either referencing to other websites) to allow display of advertising until they show you the real site content. So they urge you to view the advertising also - otherwise nothing. But this affects every OS putting them on a higher risk. > I know what you mean about not wanting to be just better and safer but really > being safe. > [...] > In Windows it seems the slightest thing can cause problems. I was also able to keep my Windows clean of Viruses - until 2009 where I fully switched - because I had my ad- and script-blockers and I know where to pay attention and what not to do. But there are plenty of people, even working in IT, who get viruses because they forget to be careful. I would be really interestet in hearing the opinion of an expert if Linux is really safer than Windows or only the fact that >90% of users running Windows make that OS the most attacked ones at client side. I am pretty sure that at server-side there is full attention of hackers is on Linux-machines but I don't know anything about statistics how many Linux servers get hijacked to end up in a bot-net. Best regards, Martin. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs