A New Attack

Geesh,

Every time I come here I feel like I'm cross posting with my other Blog (http://www.VirusMafia.com) so I don't post, but this time I couldn't resist. After all, here I can be really smarmy whereas on my other site I have to at least maintain some semblence (sp?) of propriety and decorum.

Not here.

PCs suck. :-)

I just got done reviewing the new holes and attacks happening even in XP SP2 and, on top of that, I found a link I had meant to investigate a month or so ago on a security hole made possible by AIM. Man, is this getting old? Or maybe it's just me.

I don't just want to turn this into a bitch fest about Windows (I figure there are enough people that can do that without me), but really, I just don't get why people are so enamoured of the crappy OS?

I will say that of the MS operating systems that XP is the best to date, but I don't get why people hold onto it so dearly. Is it because they've always used it? Is it because (like my brother) they had a bad experience with OS 7,8 or 9? (Hey, I used to instruct on those OS' and it didn't scare me away). What is the deal?

Maybe people are afraid of the price? Do they know they can get a fast, superdrive (that is DVD burning) machine for around (maybe less than) $1k? You can get a notebook for $1k? And these are good machines! Fast, latest OS, great reliability?

Oh wait - I got off track - this was about the latest attack though.

So anyway, with this latest attack, hackers have not only proven that the release of SP2 was just about useless, but they're already exploiting it in new ways. So why endure it? Really? Get out of MS! Join the Mac crowd. The only thing we worry about is if we'll get the latest version of a game (and that is happening a lot more now).

Right - no constant worry of having our machines trashed, hijacked or used for DoS attacks. We just use the damn things. And we LIKE it.

Oh yah, did I mention that Mac's have a great resale value too? Heck, my two year old TiBook is still worth around $1,600! And, on top of that it creates a great drool factor wherever I go too :) Oh yah baby. People always look at my Mac. It's kind of like driving into a Hyundai owners meeting with a Bimmer. Everybody looks, everybody "oooooo's" and then they put their heads down and slink back to their Windows boxes. Oh, what could have been

Hmmm, maybe instead of attacks on PCs, next post I'll talk more about that. See you then.