Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now?

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From	lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco)
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Subject	Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now?
Date	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:55:13 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <09422106-381e-4bd9-9e64-c2f87fa718a3@hg8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
Ron  <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> wrote:
>
>The OS *made* it possible, dude. Funny how this virus only runs on
>XP... Becasuse none of the past systems-- and especially a good one
>like NT-- would rely on a certain AV or firewall program only.  The
>people who made this rogue program relied on and took advantage of a

	I think you're pretty far off base here.  First of all, XP doesn't 
require any particular firewall or AV program.  Second of all, why do you 
think NT or 2000 were any more (or less) secure than XP?  Is it that NT and
2000 tended to be run in corporate situations where much of the environment
could be controlled centrally? You can lock down XP, too:  check out the
NIST or DISA STIGs.  Technically XP is MUCH more secure because it's patched
against well-known exploits but 2K isn't supported any more.

>stupid design flaw in XP. 

	Other than forcing everyone to run as administrator what flaws are
you thinking about?

	Well, that and making the GUI effectively part of the kernel...

	And that bogus cooperative multitasking crap...  But anyway...

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Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-16 15:57 -0700
  Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Pen <nospam@spam.none> - 2011-04-16 19:22 -0400
    Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-16 17:51 -0700
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? retsuhcs@xinap.moc (Mike S.) - 2011-04-17 01:30 +0000
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 05:47 -0700
        Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-17 17:30 -0700
  Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? BJ <backroadjunkie@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-04-17 04:26 -0500
    Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-17 17:22 -0700
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Pen <nospam@spam.none> - 2011-04-17 20:45 -0400
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-04-18 21:05 +1200
        Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Charlie Hoffpauir <invalid@invalid.com> - 2011-04-18 11:35 -0500
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-20 06:55 +0000
        Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-21 17:20 -0700
          Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-25 22:49 +0000
  Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-04-17 10:14 -0500
    Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> - 2011-04-17 17:57 -0700
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-04-18 19:10 -0500
        Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? schotty456_at_gmail_dot_com@foo.com (schotty456) - 2011-04-19 15:29 +0000
          Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 09:31 -0700
          Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-20 07:02 +0000
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-04-19 12:00 -0500
        Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-20 07:09 +0000
          Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-04-20 17:36 -0500
            Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-25 22:52 +0000
              Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-04-28 20:02 -0500
                Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-02 12:49 -0700
                Proper security (Was Re: Oh, God) wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-05-03 20:25 +0000
                Re: Proper security (Was Re: Oh, God) Robert Sneddon <fred@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2011-05-05 13:14 +0100
      Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-04-20 06:58 +0000
  Re: Oh, God-- What To Do Now? dg <david.goodnow@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 18:35 -0700

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