- Microsoft Hedges its bets
- Posted by John Bailo on February 16th, 2004
I was going to post this as a rebuttal to Simon Cooke, but in reading it, I
find it hilarious in another way. This is from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...ion/whyupgrade
top10best.mspx
(2) ...It's easy to encrypt sensitive data, and software restriction
policies can be used to prevent damage caused by viruses and other
malicious code...
That is -- they can't stop the viruses so they talk about /encrpting
data/ !!!!
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- Posted by Milo T. on February 16th, 2004
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 05:25:59 GMT, John Bailo wrote:
You missed the comma. Allow me to help you read the English language by
placing braces around the appropriate clauses.
{It's easy to encrypt sensitive data} , and {software restriction
policies can be used to prevent damage caused by viruses and other
malicious code...}
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- Posted by Travis 'Bailo' Bickel on February 16th, 2004
Milo T. wrote:
But there is nothing in the list about preventing the viruses ! You
see, their answer is to give up and use /encryption/ !!! LOL -- until
they make viruses with decryption !!
- Posted by Milo T. on February 17th, 2004
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:23:12 GMT, Travis 'Bailo' Bickel wrote:
Apparently you are still unable to read.
Taking the clause separately, they state:
"software restriction policies can be used to prevent damage caused by
viruses and other malicious code"
Now, as to how effective those policies are, I have no idea (I've never
looked at them). But that's what they're claiming.
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- Posted by Travis 'Bailo' Bickel on February 17th, 2004
Milo T. wrote:
Right. So they are saying, that the viruses cannot be stopped by any
measure within the windos operating system, therefore, they are assuming
the existance of viruses and the fallback is /software restriction
policies/.
- Posted by Milo T. on February 17th, 2004
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 06:27:56 GMT, Travis 'Bailo' Bickel wrote:
No, they're not saying that. They're saying that viruses can be stopped by
software restriction policies. You know how they work... the same way that
Linux does it.
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- Posted by Travis 'Bailo' Bickel on February 17th, 2004
Milo T. wrote:
Yes, but they are *admitting* that the viruses have already penetrated
their software! There is nothing in their /ten points/ that says:
prevents viruses, or protects against virus, or eliminates viruses.
WHat Microsoft says is: well, since Windos can't protect against
viruses, you can set software policies that might help...
Linux does *not* work that way.
Linux prevents viruses because of being a true structured operating
system with secure layers. It is not a top heave application loader
that can only survive -- and not even -- inside a firewall.
- Posted by Milo T. on February 17th, 2004
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:25:09 GMT, Travis 'Bailo' Bickel wrote:
You know, Bailo, I'm sick of this "discussion". If you can't read, you just
can't read.
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