Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Feb 2006 17:10 UTC
One of the biggest reasons for many people to switch to a UNIX desktop, away from Windows, is security. It is fairly common knowledge that UNIX-like systems are more secure than Windows. Whether this is true or not will not be up for debate in this short editorial; I will simply assume UNIX-like systems are more secure, for the sake of argument. However, how much is that increased security really worth for an average home user, when you break it down? According to me, fairly little. Here's why.
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2005-06-29
Hypothetically a dumb user would save the file, make it executable, and then run it purposefully. I don't know about anyone else but that sounds like a lot more trouble than it's worth for free porn of Miss Lebanon 2006 (alluding to Kama Sutra worm for those who don't know) when porn sites are much easier to get to.
In Windows the process is much easier, get the e-mail with promise of free porn, click the attachment, choose the open option and you're infected.
Really the lowest common denominator in malware is dumb users, the worst security hole is simplifying things to accomodate them because in the end you're just making it easier for them to get their computers infected.