[ubuntu-in] Gloat Gloat

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan
<ashutoshrishi92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And also the CAT examinations last year which were completely ruined because
> of a Widows virus. And I don't know if this is entirely true, but I heard
> from a good programmer that the virus was more prone to unauthorized cracked
> versions of Windows. Kudos to commercial software.
>
and this is supposed to me a multi million dollar contract to conduct
online elections, am sure any LUG could have pulled it off with less
hassle.

And wonder if the "widows" is intentional - that sounds like a tag
line - "M$ Widows use it and die" die a cruel painful death ;-)


>> 2. German government warns against using MS Explorer
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8463516.stm
>> snippet "Microsoft rejected the warning, saying that the risk to users
>> was low and that the browsers' increased security setting would
>> prevent any serious risk.However, German authorities say that even
>> this would not make IE fully safe. "
>>
>
> They also said that moving to another browser like Firefox will make you
> more vulnerable and MS IE is still the most secure browser. '"Its just one
> flaw"".

Ok to clarify - are you reading this link from india because some time
back i had a flame war with some reading the same link from two
different countries and the contents were slightly different.

No where in the article do they say that using another browser like FF
will make them more vulnerable. what they did exactly say was
Start Quote
"One thing that should be stressed is that every browser has its
security issues, so switching may remove this current risk but could
expose you to another."
end quote

and one must remember that the flaws are a combination of browser and
OS - yeah linx has its flaws but not with the same regularity and
implications as on m$ widows

ram