Microsoft issues less-than-helpful tips to XP holdouts Microsoft seems to have realised what most everyone figured out years ago: come April 9 there will still be millions upon millions of computers running Windows XP and therefore open to all sorts of potential attacks. Redmond's recognition of the problem appears in a new ”Cyber threats to Windows XP and guidance for Small …
Linux is free, but it's still less than 2% of the desktop market.
Quite literally, they cannot give it away.
The tin foil hat wearing beards are convinced that it's all an evil conspiracy by Microsoft. Or something. I really don't know to be honest. But at least the reg comments gives them a nice safe place full of other beardie weirdies, where they can all slap themselves on the back and argue over which Linux is best with the other 4 people who use it. But the unfortunate fact is as soon as you put Linux into the mass market of people who don't have beards and strong body odour, you end up with Android - a security and privacy disaster.
Wrote :- "The tin foil hat wearing beards are convinced that it's all an evil conspiracy by Microsoft. Or something."
The "something" is quite simple : the fact that you cannot buy a PC without Windows, or a Mac without OS X, at any but a few specialised outlets.
Sorry to disappoint your pre-conceptions, but I don't have a beard or tinfoil hat. I believe you are thinking of Richard Stallman; but in fact he is not a huge fan of Linux either.
Beard-less, hat-less icon.
Missed the obvious flaw in this argument:
"You don't know upgrading from XP is a good idea and you're expected to know how to install Linux."
Installing Linux is not a solution for those people who rely on "Geek Squad" or the "Knowhow" team to move their life from one handset to another ...
Perhaps it's because it is not ruled by the bottom line. Profits have been known to get in the way of both functionality and security. Or maybe it's because they have 2 million eyes looking at the code for bugs instead of 200. Perhaps the Anonymous Coward should read http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ before posting again?
@rm -rf/
"Linux does not log you in as root, which effectively is what Windows does by setting you up by default as administrator rather than a standard user."
For one thing, modern versions of Windows don't even act as "root" when you are logged in with an Administrator account, everything you run runs as a standard user unless you elect to do otherwise via a UAC prompt.
Furthermore, the issue most people actually face isn't "running as root". If you have a computer with a single user account, being root isn't really a big advantage. Most malware is perfectly capable of stealing data and doing whatever it feels like under a standard user account. And, for the record, Linux isn't really much better at protecting a user from applications/scripts they choose to run under their account, although it does make doing so marginally more difficult (which is akin to security through obscurity)
"And another windows howler is that it allows you to download and run an exe while in guest mode."
And Linux allows anyone to chmod +x anything in their home directory and run it. Your point is?
"For one thing, modern versions of Windows don't even act as "root" when you are logged in with an Administrator account, everything you run runs as a standard user unless you elect to do otherwise via a UAC prompt."
What complete bollocks - when you run a piece of software as admin that software runs with admin rights, when run as a standard user it runs with standard user privileges. Security 101 fail.
"And Linux allows anyone to chmod +x anything in their home directory and run it. Your point is?"
You have a poor understanding of Linux, just like you do of windows.
As always if you have physical access to a machine an experienced hacker can pwn anything, it's your average user we are talking here and preventing them from breaking/infecting a system.
Actually you have an outdated understanding of windows.
You aren't running with "elevated" (eg root) rights in windows even logged in as an administrator out of the box (of course if you disable all the security you are of course then doing so, but I don't think that makes windows insecure, but you a total tool).
You often have to specifically choose to run with full elevation for more and more tasks - to make sure you absolutely totally and utterly mean to allow unfettered access.
If all the Linux evangelists and friends could stop pretending they "know" windows security when they haven't used windows in years, and certainly haven't deal with anything even vaguely recent (hint: unfettered access has been gone since XP was replaced and every version is more secure and more slickly implemented in this regard) we'd all be fine.
You can use Linux by all means, that doesn't bother me at all, but please stop complaining that MS spread FUD when you do the same thing. Windows is nothing like the Windows of XP, 2003 and before.
But surely what we're comparing Linux with here is Windows XP? It will run happily on XP-era machines and eliminate the security problems of running an unsupported version of Windows. Linux is not perfect, bulletproof or suitable for everyone, Windows has got more secure over the last decade, but for limited hardware Linux is an easier upgrade path from XP than a newer Windows version, and for some of the people who are still on XP it offers an altogether adequate replacement. The difficulty for Linux advocates is going to be getting the message across, to what may be a largely non-technical audience[1], before they get hacked or forced to upgrade to something they don't really want.
[1] I know some very technically competent people who are still using Windows 2000, but they already know about and use Linux too.
It's cheaper to buy a new (but not top of the line - last year's top model) Laptop with Win 8.1 installed than it is to buy a windows upgrade for your XP box, but that is cheaper for the average PC user than installing Linux. The operating system of choice for SysAdmin types is a massive learning curve for a Windows XP user. Unless you think your own time is worthless, stay well clear of Linux and its impenetrable pirated UNIX jargon: "Linux does not log you in as root", "chmod +x", etc.
By the time you are a Linux expert, you will have spent in man-hours far more than the $750 or so for a modern Win 8 touch-screen laptop that is far superior to an XP-era primitive PC, now lumbered with an operating system hardly anyone wants.
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Stop talking Crap !
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240214560/Cut-Microsoft-admin-rights-to-mitigate-92-of-threats-study-shows
and here
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/report-64-of-all-microsoft-vulnerabilities-for-2009-mitigated-by-least-privilege-accounts/5964
Still think your running as a standard user when you are logged in as admin ?
I use windows extensively and I make sure I'm a standard user as much as possible. It's you who are spreading damaging FUD and giving users of windows bad advice.
USE A STANDARD ACCOUNT !
Linux is secure because it doesn't suffer from the stupid structural design choices made by Bill Gates himself in the name of "ease of use". Just three utterly stupid design decisions rendered every version of Windoze completely insecure, and condemned every Microsoft user to a hell of anti-malware snake-oil nonsense in a completely useless effort to keep the nasties out.
...as I would not recommend Arch, LFS, Gentoo, etc. to anyone who has not learned there way around a "User Friendly" like Mint or Ubuntu. That being said, I would not expect anyone (even the most experienced MS Grey Beard) to switch without a learning curve. Just because Linux has X Windows and office suites does not mean that people will be able to over come the learning curve before suffering from a loss of productivity. I imagine that it is this very thing that has kept them on XP so long. The biggest hurdle for any die hard XP user to over come is that of being a die hard XP user. Once they do that though, they are free to choose freedom or a new gilded cage.
+1. I had no trouble teaching my aunt and uncles to use Ubuntu with XFCE configured such that it resembles the XP Desktop. As long as the programs they're used to are available there is no problem (they're already used to Firefox and VLC anyway, so the switch to Linux was less painful than those who used a lot of Windows-exclusive software. The only program that required them to learn a lot more was LibreOffice).
That said, the biggest problem with switching from Windows to Linux is still games. Sure, Valve has moved to launch most of their games in Linux, but unless Loki Software comes back from beyond the grave and start porting the games again, I doubt if we're ever going to see SimCity 2013 or StarCraft II on the platform :(
(Yes, I know SimCity 2013 sucks and that both EA and Activision are evil and I shouldn't have bought their games. But SimCity 2013 was like one of those really nasty accidents- on one hand, you can't deny it's grisly. On the other hand, you just can't take your eyes off it. Wine? I tried SimCity 2013 in Wine- it gave me some "unable to activate the game for your platform" bullshit).
Personally, I use Windows 8.1 (+Start8)... mostly because I develop Windows software.
I'm not a Windows or Linux advocate, I gave Linux Mint a try a while ago.
For a regular user, the learning curve for Linux is a myth. In fact, XP to Windows8 is steeper - especially with the likes of Linux Mint.
For the XP users that I "support":
- 90% of their time is in the browser.
- Their file operations are usually limited to "My Documents", the desktop, or a usb drive.
- Most have pre-ribbon Office.
- Still have their pre-loaded crapware installed
- Bloated, out of date, and ineffective AV software, from PC World.
When they upgrade to Linux, they get:
- The applications in the "start menu" are categorised by their type, rather than company name.
- The software manager is just like an app store; everything works, no compatibility issues, no downloading exes from random sites, etc.
- LibreOffice is more comfortable and familiar than the latest MSOffice
- A "new" computer, for a cup of coffee + biscuit.
It's a no-brainer.
A Windows "power user" might have more of a hard time re-learning.. although if they do enjoy using computers, they might even have more fun with it, exploring a new system.
It's not for me, though. Like many here, I'm locked-in.
Would an addition to the list in the original article be something like
"Install Firefox Web browser and then install the NoScript add in for Firefox"?
What percentage of crap would that cut out?
PS: Near the local University there are three computer shops flogging kit to students. Second hand Win7 CoreDuo [2] 15.x inch laptops going for about £95 to £150.
I use GNU/Linux on my recycled Thinkpad at home, and I use Windows 7 at work looked after by people who seem to know what they are doing. I'm thinking about the type of XP user who just switches it on a few times a week...
That 90% applies to most business users too. There are quite a few application vendors that do everything in a web interface.
I really don't know why we give people full blown PC's any more. A thin client is the most any of them need. And to that end, why do most of them really even need a windows environment? Data entry can be on a dumb terminal...
"...the biggest problem with switching from Windows to Linux is still games."
No, the biggest problem with Linux is that installing programs.
Time and again I've heard people recommend this or that distro., but when it comes to what should be the simple process of installing a program... well, there is no such thing as user friendliness.
No, the biggest problem with Linux is that installing programs.
I think you're "holding it wrong".
Actually, I've installing stuff to be much much easier than Windows. It was one of my tipping points for making the switch last year.
You have a package/software manager, which works a bit like an appstore. You click 'install' and it downloads the software (and any shared dependencies that you don't already have), and installs it all for you. No questions, no clicking next, and unticking bundled crap. Uninstalling is just as painless.
I think you're trying to do it the Windows way, by going to a site and downloading it from there. Yes, those instructions are usually for developers or people with special requirements.
I really wonder who finds the Ubuntu or Linux Mint software centres too user unfriendly to use - both are as simple as Google's Play Store on Android and, presumably, whatever Apple let you use. Search a catalogue of tens of thousands of programs, click the 'install' button and give your password at some point. Done.
"No, the biggest problem with Linux is that installing programs."
If you insist on installing programs as you were taught in Windowsland, then yes, you will have difficulty.
If you have any familiarity with iOS or Android, you know how to install programs in Linux, as Linux was doing it that way longer.
Many Linux distros have a software manager, the name may be different for each distro, which acts like a store. You search by category,name or keyword for an application you wish to install.
You click to install, the manager adds any necessary library packages, and installs them.
You can do multiple installs at the same time, and no re-boots needed.
You have to be kidding - to install something in any Debian based distro just fire up Synaptic, search for what you want by name or description, click "mark for installation" click "apply" and you're done (with all the dependencies handled for you, and the new software added to the main menu). Includes a centralised update tool that maintains everything in the software repository, without those resource-hogging popup-opening nags that Windows apps stick in the system tray, and without multiple reboots.
For must-have Windows (TM) apps (or definitely-want ones!) there's the option of running XP in a virtual machine. You can set up VirtualBox on Linux so that the guest XP has no network device, and is thus beautifully insulated from the Webs of Pain, but shares storage with the Linux host. This might work for some apps, though things that must be network connected, or need blistering graphics performance etc. are unlikely to benefit.
I speak from experience: I have a VM set up just like this to host (a) Garmin software that doesn't work well under Wine, and (b) an ancient version of MathCAD which remains useful at rare moments.
Oh, and inexperienced folk are going to want a helping hand to set that up, too.
I just switched my Dad's old laptop to Xubuntu. Pretty much all he did in XP was pictures, email, and web. He used Firefox, so it was trivial to move his profile over. The only issue he had was figuring out where to enter his wireless password. He loves that it boots faster, and that the machine "feels" faster than it did under XP.
I've just done it, and its a complete pain in the backside.
1) Windows update does not work. No clues, nothing. It just gives an obscure error message, which has limited advice on MS about how to fix. Web searches reveal that you need to install service pack 2 in order to get windows update to work.
2) I still don't have sound :-( Dell don't seem to have the drivers for my service tag any longer.
These are PCs donated to a charity for shipping to Africa. Therefore I would block all access to IP addresses in the developing world - treat it as the Wild West.
1) Windows update does not work. No clues, nothing. It just gives an obscure error message, which has limited advice on MS about how to fix. Web searches reveal that you need to install service pack 2 in order to get windows update to work.
I've had similar problems with some installs. I have a feeling it's something to do with installing a new version of MSIE too early on in the process and also not running MSIE during the install / upgrade. I now make sure each MSIE version than comes in I open it up to make sure it's initialised.
You need WSUS Offline Update (http://download.wsusoffline.net/). Download it NOW and get all of the updates, runtimes and Defender details. Then when you do a fresh WinXP install, just run the installer that the package generates. Come back an hour later, job done.
I would just skip the following:
Microsoft Security Essentials - the March 2014 update leaves a permanent reminder in the system tray that the system is out of date - so no real value.
Windows XP End of Support Notification (KB2934207)
See: http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/2014/03/03/new-windows-xp-data-transfer-tool-and-end-of-support-notifications.aspx
Decades ago computers came with floppies/CDs to re-install the operating system. At some point, users were supposed to burn those CDs themselves from images on hidden sectors of the hard disk. The first hurdle is to find those CDs - if they exist, and hope they are still readable.
Next up, part of the terms and conditions of using Microsoft software is you agree that you can be raided by FAST - at your expense. Having genuine retail install disks is not sufficient to avoid getting fined. I would also need the receipt - and the chances are even if you have one, it is not legible after 8 years. Software houses had difficulty enforcing re-sale bans, but I really do not want the hassle and expense of proving I have a valid XP license to a judge while all my computers and disks are locked up as evidence for months.
I had forgotten about the activation hurdle. Does it mean phoning someone who tells me XP is not supported and cannot be activated or does it mean the computer talks to a server that says XP is not supported and cannot be activated?
It rather depends on which version of XP you have: I have an SP1 upgrade, so first of all I had to reinstall Windows 98SE... I found that Microsoft auto-updates did not interweave correctly with the Service Packs 2,3. so continuous intervention to attenuate this process was necessary. That was just getting XP reinstalled and up to date; then there were the non-Microsoft applications which had to be reinstalled, sometimes from diskette, and obtaining the patches for those, where my version was past its E-o-L, where the original supplier had been taken over, or even gone out of business etc.
About one week's work to get to approximately where I would have been had my recovery from backup not failed for some reason. Never again. After that episode I switched to Debian which does not harrass me every time I change my configuration either, since the concept of theft does not apply to free software.
If you're talking about going from Linux to XP on a modern PC, you'll probably find you have to hunt out the drivers before it will begin to write to the disk. I can't remember if the XP I put on a previous PC just to update the BIOS didn't like SATA or something else, but it involved sticking a driver on a floppy disk and pressing a key at the right point.
(Conversely, if you put something like Win7 on any less modern kit, you may end up having to buy some new stuff - no-one bothered to do Win7 drivers for the sound card in this PC. It explains why I got it for free, and it works with Linux.)
If you're talking about re-installing XP on something that already has it, the bigger problem is re-installing the programs and data.
People who have not experienced having a /home partition with all their data and which is kept safe during OS upgrades think it is normal to have to restore everything from a backup every time.
People who have not experienced a decent repository system think that having to go to a dozen different places to reinstall / update a dozen different programs is normal.
It is aggro from beginning to end.
XP does not install on modern machines with SATA set to AHCI mode. Use the BIOS to alter that setting to COMPATIBLE. When you come to install an AHCI driver (e.g. Lenovo) there may be a procedure where you end up in AHCI mode.
As Bert 1 mentioned, MS Update does not work; but you do a few things first as advised by MS and eventually it gets going.
It can be hard to find device drivers for post-2001 hardware. In my experience Dell and Lenovo have most of what you need for their machines. But third party sites these days just want to stuff you with crapware.
Some hardware seems to have no drivers until you have XP SP2 or SP3 installed.
It will take all evening if you have a good broadband connection.
Windows NT4 used to be as bad near its end. You needed SP3 before you could put in SP6a, then there were updates after that.
What you should already be doing - put them on a separate network area with no internet access (or heavy firewall control for specific sites they have to access), disable autorun on all drives, and force all personnel on pain of cattle-prod to have any USB sticks scanned on a known good machine before they plug them in.
Of course, when you switch from XP to a more modern version of Windows then you will never be able to do a proper backup in a reasonable time again:
(at least until they resurrect Windows NTBackup with the backup-to-tape functionality)
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/3e08fc65-52f5-48ca-ae13-321cdfc44fbd/why-is-windows-backup-on-windows-7-rtm-so-slow?forum=windowsbackup
I don't use windows enough to know what is the best backup software for typical home use, but I know from experience that windows own backup sucks donkey balls in terms of portability for getting your files back again after a major crash.
Suggestions folks for a good Windows backup program?
Suggestions folks for a good Windows backup program?
I find that Macrium Reflect is doing a solid job for me. Fairly easy to configure and now I just leave it creating images to a backup drive. It keeps the last three it made. Periodically I swap the SSD on my server and do a test restore.
I use 2, Macrium Reflect Free for images and EaseUS Todo Backup for data and images. Went for the double approach just in case of restore problems with one of them.
Incidentally, I've got1 Windows 8.1 machine, and thought File History would be a good idea..... How wrong I was. It's pants, it doesn't work. In the 6 months I've been using it there have been far too many problems to detail here. The finally straw was when I found out it was randomly deciding not to back up certain files. An album with 10 tracks had track 7 not backed up for example.
You have to be 100% sure of any backup solution, and not have to worry and check backups all the time.
File History not good.
I run Ubuntu on my old NC10 netbook (dual boot to XP) with 2Gb ram and stock hard drive and OOTB hardware drivers and it runs Liunx fine. What are you doing on your desktop to drag its performance down so much! The NC10 is hardly a powerhouse.
The issue with Linux is "rich media" and codecs that are not all built in - if you get the build right its perfectly functional.
I migrated myself from Windows to Linux and the user experience is sufficiently similar that I really dont think most peoples' learning curve would be that steep
The main potential reason Linux may be a poorer choice is that many consumer devices have drivers/software written only for windows so configuring that cuddly talking child's bear can only be done through explorer with drivers loaded via USB (security of my PC aside). This can be a real pain, hence keeping the XP dual boot where I have all those pesky device management tools from vendors that cant be bothered with web interfaces.
Ends....
I have a much loved Eee 901 netbook (and a slightly less loved Eee 900). Both run Xubuntu absolutely fine, but can't cope with the Unity used in the main Ubuntu... so the answer to "What are you doing on your desktop to drag its performance down so much" for many people is 'trying to run Unity as the desktop'.
Puppy Linux runs even better on both of them, of course.
"I run Ubuntu on my old NC10 netbook (dual boot to XP) with 2Gb ram and stock hard drive and OOTB hardware drivers and it runs Liunx fine."
Samsung NC10?
Has intel graphics and an rt187something type wifi card. All work fine with GNU/Linux
OPs computer might have ATI graphics or something 'orrible.
Unity -> Compiz -> Graphics hog depending on status of driver.
I'm with @tony here. I've an old Dell D820, and ubuntu's install of '12.10' and '13.04' was quite a performance drag. Xubuntu which I've now got installed works fine, and is very quick especially given it's installed in the slow part of the hard drive.
Next, I'll see how the Windows 7 upgrade works (or not). It's worth a try for some gaming, and some things that just are harder to get to work under Linux (age of empires 1, for example). If I look around, I've even got Chip's Challenge kicking about (Win 3.11).
Aah, nostalgia.
If it is someone who really needs XP natively for some special application then they will already be taking precautions.
If it is a home user without any technical skills or the money to simply buy a new PC they are screwed, unless someone is willing to help them. At least a Linux install can be done for beer money, so folk on a really low budget have some option for safe web use.
Failing all of that, there are £100 android tablets out there...
Hmm, from an IT security ignorant perspective - MS is not doing a very good job here:
1. Malicious websites - can I have it in writing that swapping to Win 8 will allow me to freely visit them just because I can?
2. Links in my email - can I go trigger happy once I've upgraded to Win7/8, really? Bring it on!
3. Removable drives - does upgrading my OS mean I'll be able to poke any hole with any stick?!
4. Worms targeting 0 days we won't fix - do I have guaranteed protection against bugs targeting Win 7/8 and will your fixes against those recompense my already sustained losses if I get infected before you spot the bugger?
5. Ransomware - see above
And last but not least, I'm sure there will be some twats trying to exploit the unaware or stubborn initially, however, if I was a baddy, given a choice of writing malware that can affect 20% of the market share, or 70%+. think my ego would flow towards the latter.
Alas, I'd say MS would have a better success using a carrot instead of a cracked stick, but that's just me.
As for my parents, 2 tablets and an android ran little media centre box have replaced their aging PC entirely. They are now considering one of the monstrous 20+inch to fulfill my mom's personal dream - having one permanently installed in the kitchen (cooking is her post retirement hobby).
XP PC is sobbing quietly in a corner of the attic, next to a CRT monitor that now serves as a threat to the grandchildren - if you'll be naughty, nana will replace your LCD with this ol' monitor.
I hate 8. However given that I have to support this sh*t platform I reluctantly shifted over to 8.1 in Feb. But once you install classic shell etc, and copy over the windows 7 wallpaper, it is slightly torrerable.
However, if i open a picture etc it drops back into metro and that frustrates the crap outta me. Im slowly getting around these 'issues'.
I admit that it is faster on startup / shutdown, but thats the only thing I like!!
Long ago I had two XP computers on my desk. Then I excitedly updated one to Vista on launch. One week later it was running Kubuntu (which kinda networks better with Windows then Windows).
My XP computer still got most use especially for real work. Kubuntu was fine for browsing, email and the odd thing like SSH for which Windows needs apps. It wasn't until last year that I found myself using Kubuntu more than XP. It took that long to adjust and gradually replace Windows apps with platform independent apps. Yep it would have been a lot faster if I had no choice. Well on April 17th (yes I'm going to risk 9 days) the XP computer will be replaced with a Kubuntu 14.04 LTS system so it will be two Kubuntus on my desk. I'll keep a XP laptop under the desk 'just in case'.
So that's my life story on how Microsoft lost me without trying. But its also how heavy users just can't switch from one to the other happily even if, like me, they have been Linux Sysadmins for a decade. So junk XP get Linux next month may perversely be an option for people only requiring browsing and email - its going to take a lot longer to do a sensible transition on a larger scale.
So the only thing it's going to take for 2014 to finally be the year of desktop linux is ... hordes of XP using grannies to suddenly migrate.
Despite the fact I'm about to get down voted into oblivion I don't think that's going to happen. As a desktop OS the various flavors of Linux all have nerd chic and, once you get over the learning curve are just as good at hosting a browser as Windows they're still largely lipstick on a pig. A powerful server centric pig, but a pig none the less.
Until we see a consolidated effort to make a Linux experience simple and straight-forward (if I have to drop to the command line and type in arcane commands to install or upgrade an app... most GUI users are going to scream and hide) or the major game vendors treat Linux as a first class citizen it's just going to continue to lag. Of course it you want a nice *nix-based experience then just upgrade to a Mac ;)
"(if I have to drop to the command line and type in arcane commands to install or upgrade an app"
Why on earth would you need to use a command-line to install or upgrade a program ? You can do if you want but it's not necessary.
For example ( I use OpenSUSE 13.1/KDE ) Installing is via the GUIs Yast then Software Management and updates by Yast then Online Update. There is even another GUI option for installs/updates. They are in a nicely-behaved Start menu BTW
Not sure if it just one of my system's, but I've noticed an increasing number of websites not loading correctly in IE8 on XP, whereas Chrome has no problem.
So looking at a typical non-IT user, I suspect many will upgrade to Win 8.1 or whatever in about a year's time when they find that many of their favourite sites don't load in IE6/7/8 and they don't know how to load an alternative browser..
Whilst the directive to "Back up more often so you can do a clean reinstall." is sound, the problem is that MS don't really provide the tools for a non-IT user to do a full disk image backup, which is what you really need to get rid of ransomware, rootkits and other nasties. But then if they haven't been bothered to create recovery disks, it is unlikely they will be doing backups.
Suspect Geek Squad and Knowhow will be doing quite a bit of business in the next 1~2 years...
They're very anemic old AMDs so no AV software, that would use more resources than the music software I'm trying to run. Probably not going to do anything different come April although the machines are online and on my home network. What's the worst that could happen? Even if I got ransomeware, the CPUs are so crap, they would take years to encrypt the 3TB of stuff I have on my network. Do you not think I would notice something going wrong way before I even lost 5% of my stuff? My fileserver is linux on a powerpc chip, I could download XP malware onto that thing all day long, you'd never get it to actually run on there. So why should I care?
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