Amazingly dumb remark about Linux

[Octavian Rasnita]

Do you know that there are security features for Windows also?
I am not talking about Windows 9X systems, of course.
I am using Windows 2000 and you can set an NTFS partition with more rights
for each folder or file than under Linux.
You can log in as another user with less rights to delete or edit files and
a virus will have the same rights like you, like in Linux.

Of course, a virus can delete a lot of files in Windows but only in some
directories where the users has the right to write, but ... it is the same
in Linux.

But we are talking about Windows again on a list for Linux.

Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux


> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> > I agree with what you say. However, if I understand you correctly, why
> > do you want viruses for Linux to exist?
>
> I think he believes that only popular operating systems have viruses.
> This is so boneheaded!  Only insecure operating systems like Windows have
> viruses.  Sure, viruses could be written for Linux, but most would require
> that you run them as root, which any sensable person won't do.  The
> problem with Windows is that everybody has the equivilent of root power in
> the home versions that are most common.  Also, Microsoft made their email
> clients capable of executing VB script and such which opened a huge can of
> worms.  To me, those are the fundamental problems with windows not
> counting Microsoft being nearly a monopoly.  Any user can trash their
> system without trying.  In Linux, you don't trash the system unless you
> spend all your time logged in as root.  As long as you are a normal user,
> you can't destroy your own system through a wrong command.
>
>
>
>
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