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To: mozek who wrote (45204)	5/24/2000 1:41:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 74651

Hey, speaking of 'providing the source' mozek, that'd probably go a little ways toward helping make Windows more secure (IMO). -JCJ

To: mozek who wrote (45204)	5/24/2000 3:25:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

mozek, Fred Cohen is not the person you want to quote in a post. There is a enormous difference between file system security in Unix & in Windows. He obviously doesn't know that. If you don't know the difference in the file systems, I suggest you take a course in beginning Unix to find out. Basic to all Unix O/S's is a permissions mask that applies to ALL files in the file system. No virus that doesn't have owner or group rights to a file will ever be able to do anything to it unless the user specifically allows read/write access to the outside world. It's not a perfect security, but it's MUCH more robust than Windows, which has NO security AT ALL. Any file on your Windows 98 O/S can be destroyed by any process running in memory. There is simply no security built-in. Another thing: IE crammed into the O/S is a security no-no. Netscape runs in User space and cannot by definition gain direct access to any peripheral devices or network drivers, or the keyboard etc. even if it's running on a PC, which makes a good case for Linux. In Unix, user processes don't have that priviledge, so that protects the O/S and your sensitive data. Tell Fred Cohen to go take some computer classes and stop polluting the internet with his false statements. The guy is just plain ignorant. BTW: just what kind of a "study" are you looking for. It's common knowledge that Windows viruses are the ones everyone gets hurt by. So, if there are only 42,000 rather than 45,000 in the last 12 years that negates this guys "sensational quote"????? Even the M$FT security guru didn't dispute the figures, mozek. Instead he quoted the bank robber Willie Sutton. I'll restate my proposal, which I like: a consortium should buy out M$FT stock, gut the company, fire the management, replace Windows for free with Linux and port all apps to Unix using current M$FT apps software engineers. cheers, cherylw