-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/20/07 04:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Moreover, most of Windows users are running their home OS with the > administration rights all day long, they used to download and install > lots of non-opened freeware from the web. > > Well, they just do lots of important/dangerous/admin tasks that should > be done normally with a lot of care. Linux learns you these notions > that lots of basic MS users lack. Just tell linux users to ride their > boxes as root, installing lots of binaries not managed by their > distros without extra care, updating as much often as new versions > come out without thinking about stability, and you would see a huge > smile on their faces, with a "good joke !" comment. This is the > cultural gap.
What galevsky writes is key. Also, note that while I have absolutely *no* worries about viruses, and *would* worry about worms, rootkits & buffer-overflows if my box had any daemons listening on net-viewable ports, I *do* worry about: Firefox/Iceweasel. An XSS bug + a buffer overflow could lead to privilege escalation and a rootkit being installed which could phone home or do other malicious things as root. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGKMHOS9HxQb37XmcRAuGvAKCD9qXgb6ZR6IfA9l9xh9SJ1WSOvwCfavhG UXCj+zkh/3lqbInV2sXXFAA= =CiMU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
