by Bruce Grubb <bgrubb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 15, 2008 at 10:35 PM
In article <jim-67968B.10112015052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Jim <jim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2777&It
> emid=449
>
>
> Read on WinBoys...
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/4wf5rl>
is less likely to be broken when
quoted.
The one thing the writer of the article doesn't realize is that most of
Microsoft's security headaches were of its own making. Part of this was
thanks to putting comment scripting, ActiveX, and DirectX without making
sure you had some degree of security to prevent any Joe Smoe Hacker from
using these things until the horse was out the of the barn and in the next
country. The total fiasco regarding the Word macro virus case in point.
The other part is the one thing no one, not Microsoft, not Apple, can
control: user error. No system can prevent a user from going off and
doing
something totally stupid and infecting their computer three ways into next
Sunday.
By totally stupid I mean without any degree of healthy paranoia. Like
opening email you don't know where it came from with an attachment you are
not familiar with and opening said attachment level of dumb. This is the
level of totally stupidity what few supposed MacOS X "viruses" (really
Trojan horses) require to do their thing.
