Linked by Kristofer Jarl on Fri 23rd Jul 2004 05:38 UTC
The smell of newly purchased stuff... So, there I was, Hauppauge WinTV board in hand, Mandrake 10 installed and ready to rock! Little did I expect that it would come to this. But first things first. 
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I understand you but you are missing some point too. First,it is correct that any regular user is using the standard windows cd( I mean, not slipstreamed sp or patches something like that, I don't really know if companies like DEll ship their systems with service packs applied, someone let us know), so like this anybody can be exploited. The thing I'm saying you are only as secure as your latest version. I mean let's say I have Slackware 8 and didnt upgrade it(no internet connection), I have the same possibility as windows users, as there might be exploit for Slackware that i need a patch to install. Besides it is not like Windows users have kernel, system upgrades like Linux users every 4-5 months.
Another thing is you need to have connection to internet to apply those patches, but worm needs the same thing, you need to be connected to internet. Besides Security patches are not really big so you can install them even on dial-up.
Don't tell me that you never do this on a Linux system.
Nobody can do anything if the user doesnt know/care about the security.
Hopefully you will understand my point now.