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Originally posted by widebody911
Blame Microsoft for putting out such an intrinsically weak OS.
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Dude, you're dead wrong and perpetuating something that doesn't help. Users need to be masters of their own computers (At home) and domain admins need to take control of their networks.
Okay, Here's the Disclaimer; I'm a 100% UNIX fanatic. I use Windows when I have to and that is only on my desktop at home or my laptop. But in my real work environment I choose UNIX for functionality.
Now here is where the true blame lies; it lies on the USer for thinking that if you leave all the doors open nobody will try to come in.
Windows is no intrisically weak; it's default settings are. That's the user's fault too. When you go home at night you lock your doors but on your PC you leave them all open and leave services you'd n ever use turned on an beaconing - "Here I AM!"
People need to either learn to configure their computers or pay someone to do it for them or put a firewall on their network.
My philosophy is "default deny." I investigate my network to see which ports/protocols I need to operate and then I close everything else down by turning it off at the server, blocking it with a firewall software at the server and access-listing it out of my network on the routers and firewalls.
Granted, I'm a pro - but I don't blame Microsoft because they aren't the only ones with the problem. Try doing a bare bones install of Redhat and see how many services you said *NOT* to install get installed and turned on anyway. Solaris is the same way, It's this default "plug-and-play" mentality people NEED to buy a product that is the cause - it's the USERS.
Just once, any machine out there run Nmap against it - MAC, UNIX, Windows just check. You'll see how many extra services are on that machine listening.
People are lazy and that's why Virii on Windows are so prevalent - the users wanted an OS that read their minds...making something that integrated though means it will be exposed to unintended purposes.
Default Deny should be the rule.