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Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« on: January 03, 2006, 06:52:59 PM »
The lastest and worst vulnerability yet.  

Attacks all versions of Windows shipped since 1990.  
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More...........

The M$ response............

Guess I'll be surfing on JUST the Mac Mini till after the 10th of Jan! Glad I kept it now!   :crazy:

My Win2K webserver should be OK as it is stripped of ALL unessential services and apps.   :-D
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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2006, 07:22:13 PM »
Glad I abondoned my PC and switched to Mac 3 weeks ago  :-D

Running IBM and Motorola PPC/68k all the way now

But the ordinary "John Doe" goes and buy his PC because it's cheap and it's the only computer he/she knows of and WindoZZZzze ships with it :crazy:
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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2006, 07:58:31 PM »
it is also ordinary "John Doe" that ditch windowsxp, becouse he dont know how to use it proper. and then buy a mac and think all problems are solved...


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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2006, 08:06:42 PM »
Mac's are nothing for gamers or for file sharing online, that I've noticed but for general use and long livety it kicks Windows ass big time
It's not hjust the OS it's how the Mac's are built.

Someone please close this thread, I fear we might have a Windows vs Mac flame war here otherwise, hehe
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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2006, 08:06:56 PM »
@ c64_d0c

Thank GOD I'm not any ordinary "John Doe"!   :-P
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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2006, 08:27:04 PM »
The only true solution for this for x86 users is to install Linux. ;-)
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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2006, 08:28:24 PM »
Yes or WinUAE  :lol:
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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2006, 08:29:24 PM »
 

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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2006, 08:30:41 PM »
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If you must use windows i recommend these 2 programs...

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Firewall/Peer-Guardian-Pr.shtml

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http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2062.html

Both are free!


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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2006, 08:31:16 PM »
 :-D
 

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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2006, 08:37:10 PM »
@gizmo350

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Attacks all versions of Windows shipped since 1990.

Actually Windows XP and 2003. That's large part of systems, though.

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Guess I'll be surfing on JUST the Mac Mini till after the 10th of Jan! Glad I kept it now!

Community to the rescue: Unofficial fix for the vulnerability

See also Tom Liston's diary entry from SANS Internet Storm Center.

Direct link to the fix: wmffix_hexblog14.exe
 

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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2006, 08:58:00 PM »
Enjoy the mac bliss while it lasts. As the user base rises, so will the ammount of discovered exploits. People hailed firefox as a the uber secure browser in beginning, but as it's user base grew, more and more security flaws were discovered.

Really, every system is full of flaws. Which one is better is a matter of opinion and needs. Personally i use a mac and a pc all day long. For development work, i prefer the PC, faster hardware, and i can navigate through apps in windows without having to look at the screen or touch the mouse.

I like the mac for email and web, as there are less known vulnerabilities there. I dont use linux any more because apache/mysql/php/perl/ and dozens of other apps i userun on OSX. Osx is shiney and pretty. Who doesnt like shiny and pretty?

I havent written any osx native software because i dont like xcode and dont feel like learning objC ( mainly because i dont make money writing mac software, so why bother? ). Ive been using realbasic the past week and it's pretty good. Easier than wading through vb.net, more mature than vb6. Applications run on mac/windows/linux without modification, sweet.

What i really want though, is to be able to get to some of the OSX ui stuff through plain old c/c++ like i'm used to with xlib or windows gdi. Why does apple see fit to try and  force me to learn a new(old) language thats only usefull on their platform. It reminds me of microsoft and their .net. ObjC and coca, blah

 

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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2006, 10:05:04 PM »
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What i really want though, is to be able to get to some of the OSX ui stuff through plain old c/c++ like i'm used to with xlib or windows gdi. Why does apple see fit to try and  force me to learn a new(old) language thats only usefull on their platform.


I cheat with GUI stuff on OSX.
Admittedly, I only code in PureBasic on the Mac, but I wrote a simple little app that  turns the XML data produced by XTools Interface Designer into a couple of PB functions that handle setting up the GUI and handle an automatically generated event loop..but I'm still a long way of getting a beta version of iPorn ready.
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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2006, 10:52:27 PM »
Well I just got a friend off of a Windows OS machine, onto a Mac Mini .. perfect fit for him as it's for his landscaping business, all it does is Word, Excel, e-mail and a bit of internet.

Reason he switched was because of a rather nice virus he received, it switched off Norton and then started downloading extra files (ie. more virus's) and turned his machine into a zombie .. pretty clever really but I'd love to meet the guy who wrote it.
 

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Re: Another reason why I want to ditch Microsoft.......
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2006, 12:13:17 AM »
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Nice to see another Lemonamigan here  :-D


I'm a LemonAmiga member also! :-D

I just never post on the forums.  :oops:
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