Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 2nd Sep 2004 19:56 UTC, submitted by Jon Cooper
"We evaluated the security features of Windows XP SP2 on a test machine, following a clean install of XP Pro with no configuration changes and no third-party software or drivers installed. We installed XP with the NTFS file system, choosing all of the factory defaults, then patched it with each recommended security update including SP-1 (required), before installing SP2." Read the rest at TheRegister.
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Mr.Greene is living 20 years in the past.
It's 2004 Mr.Greene, not 1984, and we don't use punch cards her any more on planet Earth.
Most homes have more than one computer and have them networked to share files and printers.
Most people email their family members some pictures regularly and html email is the norm.
Most kids these days install new games almost daily, run various file sharing and messaging software, administer their own websites and/or forums (i.e. gaming or clan site) and are probably more computer literate than Mr.Greene.
These kids are the administrators of their computers.
Java, javascript, and ActiveX exist to give websites added functionality and better user experience
Turning these off is going back to the early days of the web.
From the artice, one would have hard time guessing wether Mr.Greene is competent or quolified to write about computers and much less about security at all.
Mr.Greene do you have any insightfull tips for us Slackware Linux users? Please, we are all ears, alway eiger to learn some new tricks how to make our computers more secure.
How about a few insights for my Smoothwall? No?
LOL.
After all the negative responses he is getting here, he'll probably crawl back under his green terminal connected with a 2400bps modem to his $1/month ISP, fire up Pine and email (text only) to his WWII budies about how nasty the Osnews readers are.
Get real man, it's 2004.