Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Netsky worm Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:53:54 -0700 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <000001c45ee9$e0159c00$6401a8c0@homezbwjy90b2v> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-67-102-25-114.lsanca54.covad.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) In-Reply-To: Robert Pendell wrote: > Yes. That is true. Microsoft is showing some changes though for the > future. For example. Even in Windows XP, LAN connections are > firewalled by default. SP2 will enable the firewall by default and > include a security center. The firewall is more robust giving the user > a bit more control but still lacks outgoing data protection like > commercial firewalls have. I believe we all heard of this. However, what about Word/Excel documents running macros causing problems. Yes they stopped that but then again that's my point - initially, and by default , used to be enabled. Then there's http://news.google.com/url?ntc=0M4C0&q=http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml%3FarticleID%3D22103094 on the front page of news.google.com. Also, the infamous Love Virus, SoBig, etc, etc. > Right. Windows actually stole certain things from UNIX. Example: The > system32\drivers\etc folder is taken directly from UNIX. There are > certain others stolen from UNIX too but I can't remember what. Oh there are tons of things like DNS, HTTP, SMTP and then things like nslookup, ping, telnet, rsh, etc. Find's look like greps, type is a poor man's more, and speaking of more, the Windows more. Many other utilities, some even done by MS themselves, have often shed their /opts for -opts Unix style command line format. > The money they charge is usually for support costs, media costs, and > time spent actually making the media. However it is far cheaper to go > on ebay and buy the same product that some burned using downloaded > iso's. Some people still connect on modems and therefore cannot > download the free iso images. I am one of those people and know that I > cannot leave my system on downloading for extended periods of time. Why not? I believe when I beta tested XP I downloaded their ISO images through a modem... Just let it run all night. -- An error? Impossible! My modem is error correcting. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/