Johann Low

火曜日, 7月 06, 2004

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If anyone of u uses IE 6, it is better for u not to use it for the time being. The reason is an old security issue has resurfaced. Anyone who is more IT savvy will know that IE has a long history of security issues which attackers can make use of its loopholes to compromise anyone's PC. More often the Active X feature is the main cause. Recently there are more and more attacks on Billy G products, be it the OS or the explorer or its Office suite. Windows although its the most common OS in the PC world today is actually full of problems which often not seen by the end user. Windows is still a DOS based OS. The main core of the system is still DOS, from what my cousin told me then. I am not sure now.

And because it is DOS based, the DOS core is not actually written to be "upgradeable" It is just a simple OS program to function. Thus when Windows 95 and above were introduced, those were simply seriously patched up operating systems. This somewhat make these 2 OS so buggy. Windows 95 is not so bad, but Windows 98 and Windows ME are probably 2 of the worst operating systems ever made by Billy G. Windows 98 can even hang when one moves the mouse too fast, like my gf's pc. Win ME is not better, its just another pretty repackaged Win 98 (repatched) which is even more buggy than Win 98. But the PC which i was using at my ex-company was running on Win ME and its quite oke. Think it must be due to the abundant RAM (128mb). Of course there is Windows NT, well it is said to be a more stable OS but still it gives the blue screen of death.

Then comes Windows 2000 prob the best Windows system ever. It is actually Windows NT 5.0 based on the NT code. Rock stable. Win XP though said to be based on Win NT / 2000 is not quite as good as Win 2000, no doubt its very eye catching. I m wondering why the previous prgmmers of older Windows liked gray so much. My Windows 2000 was running very smoothly on my old PIII 866 with 256MB RAM. Win XP takes up too much system resources.

The reason why attackers are so attracted to attacking MS products is due to its popularity. windows is popular is not due to its fantastic features. It is full of security loopholes. it is buggy and need constant patches. (windows update anyone ?) But such a crap product still managed to dominate 95% of the PC market ! Of course, anti-Americans and Anti Billy G people will be seeing red naturally. Thus the entire ecology of trojans, viruses.

Anyway if I have the money, I wld rather use a Macintosh.

elow at 12:07 午前 |

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