[wellylug] Microsoft FUD at work

[Ilia Pavlenko]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Shroeder wrote:

> As a newbie can you explain why these costs would be much different for a
> business?
>
> As far as I can see, linux doesn't guarantee no viruses (or should that be
> virii) and so a well managed business would still need to maintain virus
> protection methods?

The only protected system is an unplugged/powered off :)
If you read some "1337 SITEZ" (boy cracker sites) you'll notice that some
of them are proud of "Zero day crackz" - the software gets cracked on the
day of release. The good point in Open Source is "Zero day fixes" - the
patch usually comes up almost instantly after vulnerability announcement.


Comparing with reports about micros~1 holes: a lot of the reports mention
something like "this vulterability has been pointed to microsoft 2 month
ago, but no reply was received and still no patch available".

Yes, your business will have to maintain virus and security protection
independently of OS you run. Ignorance is not an excuse :)

The difference is that instead of that MSC* boy you'll have to employ
a proper Unix Geek :)

Ilia




>
> Thanks
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Jones" <PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz>
> To: <wellylug at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 2:47 PM
> Subject: RE: [wellylug] Microsoft FUD at work
>
>
> > And a thread on NZ.Comp mentions the enormous cost of anti-virus measures
> > that need to be taken with MS systems - surely that needs to be rolled
> into
> > TCO as well
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jonathan Harker [mailto:jharker at massey.ac.nz]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 4 December 2002 10:41
> > > To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: Re: [wellylug] Microsoft FUD at work
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 2:40 pm, Klenner, Colin wrote:
> > > > IDC: Windows cheaper than Linux in some scenarios
> > > >
> > > >
> > > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/02/021202hnlinu
> > > xcosts.xml?s=
> > > >I DGNS
> > > >
> > >
> > > Here's the same report, from a more reliable newsfeed! ;-)
> > >
> > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28408.html
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jonathan Harker
> > > MUSAC
> > > Massey University
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