Cool vs uncool (was: Energizer...trojan) Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 3:05 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) Arminius wrote: ||Linux certainly sounds as though it has less tar and nicotine than Windows. || gewg_ wrote: |Until someone can point to a widespread exploit on a non-Windoze platform, |M$'s junk will stand alone in its ease of infection. | I was reminded today of just how alone the (stinky) cheese stands: from the Usenet Archive: POSIX Compliance Equates With Choice and Versatility What is going on there is that Linux (the OS kernel) is (optionally) replaced and the FreeBSD kernel is seamlessly substituted. All of the POSIX-compliant infrastructure and all of the POSIX-compliant apps (aka "the distro") continues to work as if nothing has changed. Now, contrast that with Win9x apps that won't even work under XP and XP apps that won't even work under Win9x. ...not to mention that all that M$-compatible junk constantly gets infected. This also points to another severe flaw in the Defective By Design M$ OSes: With Unix-like systems, you ONLY need to reboot when you replace the kernel (or part of the kernel). Written in response to: re: Energizer, Inc. installs a trojan along with its battery charger software (gewg_: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 10:03 pm) Responses to this message: re: Cool vs uncool (was: Energizer...trojan) (Alan Masterman: Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 6:09 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Energizer, Inc. installs a trojan along with its battery charger software (gewg_: Mon, Mar 8, 2010, 2:37 pm) re: Energizer, Inc. installs a trojan along with its battery charger software (Arminius: Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 5:20 pm) re: Energizer, Inc. installs a trojan along with its battery charger software (gewg_: Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 10:03 pm) Cool vs uncool (was: Energizer...trojan) (gewg_: Wed, Mar 10, 2010, 3:05 pm) re: Cool vs uncool (was: Energizer...trojan) (Alan Masterman: Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 6:09 am) re: Energizer, Inc. installs a trojan along with its battery charger software (Arminius: Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 2:17 pm) re: Energizer, Inc. installs a trojan along with its battery charger software (gewg_: Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:27 pm) re: Energizer, Inc. installs a trojan along with its battery charger software (Arminius: Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 5:11 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum