Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Apr 25 11:13:11 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
>Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> writes:
>> And you are surprised?  AV must be installed before connection to the
>> Internet.  And don't tell me it can't be...
>
>It doesn't have to be. The firewall has to be enabled though. That Windows
>XP had a firewall from the start is unknown to many, since they think it
>came with SP2. SP2 turned it on, and certainly improved it, but it was
>there before too, doing its job if you knew it was there and turned it on
>manually.
>
>That Windows XP contained a firewall but had it turned off in its default
>state is incomprehensible to me. That it was off by default is certainly to
>a great extent responsible for the worm infestations we have seen,
>especially before SP2, but also after, for those that did not update their
>systems.
>
>It seems undescribably stupid to ship a product with a built in firewall,
>but keeping the firewall turned off in its default configuration.

Oh, we could describe it allright, but then everyone would have a copy of my 
personal 15 minute monolog, IF their monitor was fireproof.

>Regards
>Ingemar

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Cheers, Gene
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche




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