Posts by Eirronbc

ASProx botnet dials into Conficker domains

Utterly fascinating

The only problem is that the average person who's got Conficker, knows it and wants to do something about is only told by the forums that he must patch and take anti-virals at full strength.

Nobody tells him that he could install Ubuntu, which is easy, slim, blindingly fast and free, with free software and can't get infected.

Whenever I raise this matter Windows enthusiastasmisrepresent what Linux has achieved, even to the point of downright lying and Linux geeks seem to say, Oh, I'm not interested in helping people play with my toy however good it is.

So Ubuntu fails to star. Please come to the aid of the party.

I am accused of being a Scienetologist. I am simply a decent agnostic liberal humanist, who thinks the old good thing about Scientology is the Wheatstone Bridge.

Charles Norrie

Three hospital worm infection dubbed 'substantive failure'

Replies (mostly anonyymous)to my suggestion of using Linux

I am sure that any decent records keeping software will have been ported to Linux OSes. After all many countries insist their standard Health Ministry software runs on Linux - like the French

If there's a problem you could always run it under Wine

I use hotmail because I have been using it before Gates got his hands on it! I don't see why I should change, if it suits me!

There is any amount of free software 17000 packages that you can use. If you are perverse enough to have a system you claim only works with Windows, you have suffered from Vendor lock-in, and you have only yourself to blame.

Charles Norrie CBNorrie At hotmail DOT com

Further comments

I hope the gent who wants to play poker on his machine wasn't playing it at work.

MANAGEMENT

If you notice there may be a lot of Ubuntu updates, but Linux systems are updated automatically. In other words when there are improvements to be made they fixed. Unlike Windows when we have to hang around until Gates can be bothered to sent out at SP2, which will take hours to install.

Repairing standard OSes is no work for a main.

And I've been using Computers for 40 years. It took over 20 steps to boot a Ferranti Argus 400!

Charles Norrie

How to avoid malware

Talk about a complicated and roundabout way of doing something essentially simple.

Throw away all those 11 recommendations.

Simply install Linux as your operating system.

Ubuntu is free and very easy to install and get going.

If you can burn a CD, you can install Ubuntu.

By its design Ubuntu is safe and uninfectable. The last Linux malware of significance was in 1995.

Firstly, for the most part your Linux machine is invisible to the net, for all ports are closed by default.

Secondly, the Linux model cannot be infected, because no malware can gain administrator privileges.

Ubuntu systems are patched regularly with updates (not just security patches) and that happens in the background.

You very rarely have to reboot your machine.

I am utterly surprised that the medical industry is unaware of the advantages of Linux, and wastes money on buying licences for bad and buggy Windows software.

I'd willing come and demonstarte (for free) ubuntu software at any of your infected hospitals in London. Contact me at CBNorrie AT hotmail DOT com