people i understand none of us on this forum like windows obviously but let us not make it an ant--windows session. i smell so much of hatred here.We have to keep our attitude right.We love linux that is the bottomline
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan > <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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