Corporate network administrators can breathe a little easier as the world braces itself for what could be a massive Internet attack courtesy of the Conficker worm on April 1. International non-profit research organization The Honeynet Project, which works on Internet security, has come up with a new scanner to detect the worm on networks. Over the weekend, security vendors worked with the project’s Tillmann Werner and Felix Leder, who discovered how to detect Conficker on networks, to create an enterprise-class version of the scanner.
TELL ME WHY WE SHOULD PUT UP WITH THIS CRAP?
I am am Mac user. Yes, I do have a few PCs and more Unix and Linux machines, but the Windoz box that was last on the Internet was about 1999.
We do have a few Unix machines, and more than a few Linux machines, but they are pretty immune too.
Still, the general population should just go to Mac. Commercial and business users may need Linux or even Unix, but not WINDOZ, for God's sake!
I also have a Paralles partition on my laptop (the ONLY Windoz computer that can get on the Internet in the entire plant) that booted Windoz a bit over two years ago.
WHY IN THE WORLD DO PEOPLE PUT UP WITH THIS CRAP? Why would anyone go through all the crap that you must to protect a Windoz machine when NOTHING is required on a Mac?
Yes, there is evil software for the Mac, but if you don't give your users Admin access, they cannot load it.
Those with Admin access have to request the evil software, download it, dismiss the warning, and enter their Admin password. To download evil software one would have to be an absolute idiot.
In an office environment, there is NOTHING that cannot be done on the Mac, using Mac:Office (not great as it is expensive and still Micro$oft), iWork (pretty darned good, Office compatible and $79 or one user or $99 for five), or Open Office (FREE, and darned good, and totally M$ Office compatible).
WHY do Windoz users put up with this crap? What a waste of time and MONEY!
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Security Sleuths Work Overtime to Confound Conficker
Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 30, 2009 12:04 PMCorporate network administrators can breathe a little easier as the world braces itself for what could be a massive Internet attack courtesy of the Conficker worm on April 1. International non-profit research organization The Honeynet Project, which works on Internet security, has come up with a new scanner to detect the worm on networks. Over the weekend, security vendors worked with the project’s Tillmann Werner and Felix Leder, who discovered how to detect Conficker on networks, to create an enterprise-class version of the scanner.
I am am Mac user. Yes, I do have a few PCs and more Unix and Linux machines, but the Windoz box that was last on the Internet was about 1999.
We do have a few Unix machines, and more than a few Linux machines, but they are pretty immune too.
Still, the general population should just go to Mac. Commercial and business users may need Linux or even Unix, but not WINDOZ, for God's sake!
I also have a Paralles partition on my laptop (the ONLY Windoz computer that can get on the Internet in the entire plant) that booted Windoz a bit over two years ago.
WHY IN THE WORLD DO PEOPLE PUT UP WITH THIS CRAP? Why would anyone go through all the crap that you must to protect a Windoz machine when NOTHING is required on a Mac?
Yes, there is evil software for the Mac, but if you don't give your users Admin access, they cannot load it.
Those with Admin access have to request the evil software, download it, dismiss the warning, and enter their Admin password. To download evil software one would have to be an absolute idiot.
In an office environment, there is NOTHING that cannot be done on the Mac, using Mac:Office (not great as it is expensive and still Micro$oft), iWork (pretty darned good, Office compatible and $79 or one user or $99 for five), or Open Office (FREE, and darned good, and totally M$ Office compatible).
WHY do Windoz users put up with this crap? What a waste of time and MONEY!
It makes no sense at all!