"Not too long ago, ad agencies, design firms and other creative companies were about the only businesses that widely deployed Macintosh computers to their employees. But for a number of reasons, word of the benefits of Apple hardware - and software - on enterprise desktops is now spreading."
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Member since:2006-10-08
"Since when is clearing out viruses and spyware a task that should be done by users, and not system administrators (assuming you accept that it should have to be done at all, which Windows users do, but others don't)?"
Proper prevention is the task of the system administrators or OS preloaders. Users usually tend to bypass the means of security and protection others held ready for them. Usually not the system administrators install viruses, trojan horses, spyware and malware. Users do. Why is this? It seems to be this way because users are not familiar with the basic means of system protection such as system administrators are (or should be). So they need to use a system that does not permit them to install viruses etc., in the best case. But users don't want to be regulated (or advised), they usually know everything better and / or just don't care. Any idea why there's so much crap floating around the internet? Ca. 90% of the email transfer volume is spam. Who is responsible? Of course the "inventors" of this mess, but the uninformed and uninterested users as well, because their machines are spreading spam and nobody cares.
I just want to say the following: I fear that when KDE gains more "market share" (oh how I love this term), criminal individuals will invent ways to abuse the easiness of not really needing a root account to install malicious software on a computer. A simple "yes to everything" will open the gates for them, and the innocent user will just confirm, next, next, next, okay, done. Allthough a Linux machine has mechanisms to prevent this, they can be bypassed. And then, the affected Linux machine can to potential damage to others because it's a powerful system. We'll see if KDE in the future will be a platform for criminal activity (viruses, spam, data espionage and saboutage etc.) such as "Windows" is today. I hope it won't, but it largely depends on its users.
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2006-04-21
Linux (and especially KDE) are developing into a direction of wiping out the fine difference between system administrators and system users. This seems to be essential to get access to the home market. But companies should employ people who know what they're doing. "User friendly" is one thing, "administrator friendly" would be another. Because administrators usually are well educated and professional people, they tend to have a very different opinion of what's "friendly" to them.
Since when is clearing out viruses and spyware a task that should be done by users, and not system administrators (assuming you accept that it should have to be done at all, which Windows users do, but others don't)?