Timelessblur said:
if people are going to use that as a vaild reasoning to say windows suck because of this. Then agurment like Mac suck base on they use of school lab computer that run OS 9.x or 8.x when they are compared with XP.
This is the kind fo crap I complain about ignorant mac users they thow out stuff like this that is really pretty invalid stuff because right now you can not buy a non SP1 disk all the back up disk sold from dell are SP2. I sorry but stuff like this pisses me off when people use it as oh this is why. Try that on an SP1 computer it takes some time do it with SP2 yeah it not happening and by defualt now all windows computer automaticly update and install all criticaul updates. You have to change the setting manually to do other wise if you are running SP2
I agree with 80% of what you are saying.
I work with a Managed hosting company that has over 800 Windows servers in their environment. With proper patching and updates the systems remain mostly secure. however, even with automatic updates, we still get 3 or 4 computers that are compromised a month and somehow have ports open by themselves. Those numbers by themselves speak well for Windows Server security. (shrugs)
The issue that allot of home users run into (including XP experienced people), is when they buy new, or need to reload their computer with Base XP, and or XP SP1 or 2. They then need to update security patches on their computer right away to avoid current security risks.To do this most need to get onto the internet to download their Drivers, or Windows updates. During this time, their computer is most subject to being bombarded with port exploits, or spyware. If the computer is compromised during this time, it may still be highly vulnerable after the patches are installed, depending on what was done between the base load and the point were the security updates are up and running. The best way to avoid this, is to get your computer on the internet, and go DIRECTLY to windows update, and or kick off auto updates on your computer, before hitting ANY website, or FTP server.
Windows updates work, but the fact of the matter is, most home users don't have CD's or Network attached systems with the updates available to them, before they connect to the internet. There lies the problem for most home users.
I have since gotten tired of having to run Spybot Search and Destroy, Adaware, and other programs on my home computer at home. I still like Windows XP, and such, but I don't want to deal with it at home any longer.
