| Weblog: | A Windows Die-Hard Confronts Linux | |
| Subject: | AV, Firewall, Anti-Spyware are not all 100% | |
| Date: | 2004-07-21 06:17:00 | |
| From: | alexchejlyk | |
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I used to be a die hard Windows fan. Stability issues with Win2K/98 made me switch to Linux in late 2000. The big issues with XP are the unknown exploits. Dwnload.ject is the latest unknown. Spyware is much harder to detect than worms and viruses, since stealth is the name of the spy game. Users who feel they are not at risk are the sweetest targets. The clients I've switched to Linux desktops had teething pains at first, but after a year on Linux have found the systems to be very reliable, never bogged down by application/registry bloat and immune to the 100,000 Windows worm/virus garbage. Spyware is the new front where Windows systems show their vulnerabilities. Switching from Windows to Mac/Linux is well worth it, considering all the malware that has infected Windows. |
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