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From: "Anthony Creapeau" <creapeaa@msoe.edu>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
	<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: RE: An official slightly off topic anouncement
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:07:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000001c762a8$0b529de0$6401a8c0@tunes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY103-DAV152CAFA23EE6CBD31E84CD8E780@phx.gbl>

My professor was part of the BSD team where he earned his PhD in this
particular OS and he too claims with all the attempts to plug holes it is
not impervious to virus attacks.

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:15 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: RE: An official slightly off topic anouncement

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 14:37 -0600, Anthony Creapeau wrote:
> I myself am not biased to any one OS as each has it's plus and 
> minuses. But for running a web server on Windows Professional was 
> probably not a good idea because it's actually a client machine used 
> as a workstation in a business environment. Each service you install 
> or add to Windows does effect the amount of resources that are eaten 
> up in which case a low end web-server would have done just fine. I use 
> Window eyes and JAWS, audio converters, antivirus and surf the web without
a flinch from MS.
> 
> Let's not forget virus writers want to inflict as much damage in one 
> instance as they can. What OS is the most prevalent in a business 
> environment? That's right, Windows and that's why it is so virus stricken.
There's talk that business is not such a target now, home users are meant to
be becoming more tageted as so much more is being done with computers (eg.
shopping online, storage of personal information, etc) and home computers
are being left online for longer now broadband has taken over from dialup,
and the average home users tend to be less aware of security for their
computers.
> Give me one OS on the market today that is impervious to viruses. I 
> can't think of one including Linux. Each and every OS has it's 
> drawbacks and whatever you choose to use is fine. To each their own.
May be not entirely free of security issues, but one of the most secure
systems is meant to be openBSD, and they claim only 1 remote hole in over 10
years. They do alot of searching code for bugs and fixing anything which
seems incorrect, even if it isn't proven to be a security hole.
> From
Michael Whapples
> Anthony Creapeau




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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Keith Hinton
 ` ace
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Sean McMahon
     ` John Heim
       ` Gene Collins
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Albert E. Sten-Clanton
             ` Kenny Hitt
               ` Gregory Nowak
                 ` Ned Granic
               ` Re[2]: " Farhan
                 ` Kenny Hitt
         ` John Heim
           ` Gene Collins
           ` Janina Sajka
             ` Glenn Ervin
               ` Lorenzo Taylor
                 ` Glenn Ervin
                 ` Sina Bahram
                   ` Janina Sajka
                 ` Chris Norman
                   ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Alex Snow
               ` Lorenzo Taylor
                 ` Re[2]: " Farhan
                   ` ***SPAM*** " Lorenzo Taylor
                 ` Erik Heil
                   ` Lorenzo Taylor
                   ` ace
                     ` Erik Heil
                 ` Anthony Creapeau
     [not found]                   ` <1173482123.32487.30.camel@layla>
                     ` Michael Whapples
                       ` Anthony Creapeau [this message]
                 ` Doug Smith
                   ` Lorenzo Taylor
                     ` Doug Smith
                   ` Lorenzo Taylor
                     ` Doug Smith
       ` Re[2]: " Farhan
       ` jaffar
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