I saw this in a signatute on a mail list I belong to.
It gave me a chuckle.
1 Copy MS Windows XP…$200; 1 Anti-virus …$80; 2 3rd party firewalls….$120; 1 Visa Credit No. Stolen from same machine when hacked…..$50,000; 2 Anti-Spyware Packages …
$60; 4 Trips to PC Service Center to remove Adware….$380..
Never worrying about this because I use Linux…Priceless
And the best thing about it is, if you don’t understand the above, you are at risk of being hacked yourself.
Now I know I said I hate those who bash MS for the sake of bashing MS in a few other posts, but this is one of those times when it is justified. But here I just doubt the reasons behind the bashing (yet again). So I don’t believe it is all MS’s fault, just that they made a rod for their own back. I don’t believe for one minute that they sit there and do nothing about security, nor do I believe that it is not one of their highest priorities.
Trouble is, the day they make Linux more user friendly, and make it easier for the non-pooter types, will be the day it gets renamed Windows 2010 or something.
This sounds exactly like the conversations I have with my bro in Oz about his Mac, how good Macs are, how Macs never get viruses, how Macs never crash etc etc 🙂
Funny that. I worked for Motorola for 9 years and when I first joined there was all this hassle about buying a computer. If you wanted a PC you had to write war and peace about why you couldn’t get a MAC instead. This was down to the fact that Motorola made the main processor for MACs (and still do). But all of a sudden, it stopped and I got a brand spanking new top of the range PC. (This was all in my first week or so).
Some time later on I attended a course on another Motorola processor we used in the basestations and we only had MACs. We even had one of the top of the range models which just for fun had a windows emulator running on it. It was running every software it had installed, video stuff, word processing, number crunching all at the same time as windows and it was so fast. But that was the only time I ever saw a MAC in use. God knows why they never took off really, because they can be seriously fast machines.
Oh, and they did crash. (If they were running the software I had written at least!)