On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 3:45 PM Michał Dec via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I haven't because I've been using Linux since 2007. The enshittification > of Windows starting with Windows ME taught me very well that updates are > a humiliation ritual with this operating system. You sacrifice the > reliability of your machine for some participation trophy that says "ur > system is up2d8". > Linux users mistakenly blaming Microsoft is more of a meme now than actual CrowdStrike memes lol. This wasn't a Microsoft issue. You might as well be raging about Intel or whoever made your network card. If Adobe releases a Photoshop update and it trashes your files, is that Microsoft's fault? If a new version of Helldivers 2 comes out and it roasts your save files, is that Microsoft's fault? If a third party AV company releases a bad update, is that Microsoft's fault? Because that's what happened. I've had to spend long hours cleaning up similar issues on Linux due to bad AV in my career. In fact, now that I think about it, in my IT career I've spent a lot more time cleaning up AV issues on Linux systems than AV on Windows (because my employers have more Linux servers). If you want someone to blame other than CrowdStrike, you could potentially blame Europe. It's their regulatory flex that forced Microsoft to open its APIs to third-party security vendors. c.f. https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/22/windows_crowdstrike_kernel_eu/ Now, a little more on topic...@*Jim Hall* here are some fun questions for the next patreon Q&A: 1. Does FreeDOS have any AV software options? 2. In the DOS era, I remember viruses being more like "diskette cooties" because you got them by trading floppies. But I think you had to actually copy software (EXE/COM/etc.) to your PC and run it...or was there some kind of "you inserted the floppy, now you've got a virus" mechanism that hackers exploited? I remember this clever virus <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(computer_virus)>, which worked by exploiting the DOSism that if you had both a .COM and an .EXE with the same name, the .COM file was executed. 3. In theory, aren't FreeDOS systems vulnerable to the same virii (sorry, high school Latin teacher) that infected MS-DOS? I really didn't realize there were so many viruses <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:DOS_file_viruses> for DOS, which would all have been floppy-transmitted. Jim, I think a chat about viruses in the DOS days would be fascinating. -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org
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