Getting to F18

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 12/17/2012 03:28 AM, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> The honour system, in the computing fraternity, at least, died long
>>> ago.
>>>
>>> Viruses, trojans, spyware, facebook...
> Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
>> And yet...I don't hear often of many Linux machines getting hacked or
>> being infected with viruses, as much as other OS'es....(don't want to
>> sound like a flamer!) so there must be SOME sort of "honor amongst
>> theives"!....
> You do hear about some, but then I don't really hear about lots of
> Windows being hacked, either.  I'm sure many more than we'd think of, on
> either camp, regularly get hacked.  So-called admins often make the
> daftest of choices when it comes to configuring systems.
>
> I also wonder how many hacked Linux boxes don't get discovered for a
> long time, because they don't grind to a halt as much as hacked Windows
> machines do.  Lots of Windows users regularly wipe and re-install,
> thinking Windows has gone bad, by itself, again, like it continually
> does.  That's got to fix up lots of infestations in a hidden way.
>
> I'm disappointed that my inclusion of "facebook" in that "bad" list
> didn't even get a wry smiley...
>
Trust me it didn't go un-noticed! Good one!


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