Windows Firewalls open up the world!

Slashdot tells me the following: A new Internet worm wriggled across the entire Internet in the span of a few hours Saturday morning to all computers running several recent versions of firewall software from Internet Security Systems, including BlackICE and RealSecure, according to this story at Washingtonpost.com. The flaw that Witty exploited was discovered Wednesday by eEye Digital Security. The worm overwrites data on the first few sectors of the victim's hard drive, making the machine virtually ubootable and potentially destroying much - if not all - of the victim's data.

Isn't that nice... Install a firewall package on your Windows PC to make it more secure and actually open it up to the world. Pretty disturbing actually that all these worms and viruses are targeted against Windows. Linux and Mac have way less problems like these, but probably if we would all switch to these platforms the viruses will also switch. So the argument to use Linux or Mac is little futile. However using a Mac or a UNIX system will make the world a better place :) They are way better operating systems in many facets.

I'm not anti-windows, i'm just PRO-UNIX.

IMHO much of the windows systems are vulnerable, because a lot of (home/consumer) users run processes with admin rights.
In the Unix/linux world, people tend to only perform admintasks as a superuser instead of running everything as root.
Things as Lindows and other “user-friendly” linux distro’s worry me, because distromakers tend to run some things as root, to improve user-friendlyness.

xinit () (URL) - 23 March '04 - 19:21

Grin :) If your not anti windows… Can I be it for you? Giving errors wich say “fatal error” bladiebla when there’s nothing wrong…enz…? Who thinks of somthing that stupid? :)

Kirsten () (URL) - 24 March '04 - 14:15

Kirsten: You may :) And Bill thinks about those stupid things :)

Cliff () (URL) - 24 March '04 - 17:47


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