I would not have an NT box if it were given to me and I had room for 10.
My system has been network connected in one form or another since 1992 and I have had NO virus problems. The SOLE virus my system has received in ALL THAT TIME has been a WinTel program, Happy 99.exe, forwarded from NT boxes at PBS.
Melissa took our corporate mail servers down for over a week. Why? because the WinTel-based "solutions" for desktop computing and mail serving installed by so-called "IT Professionals" are insecure junk. The criticism IS FAIR, because the problems on that platform are out of proportion to those of others, yet it is deployed wholesale, over BETTER, MORE MATURE, MORE SECURE platforms, with LOWER TCO. (Have you ever priced the REAL COST of M$EXCHANGE Server on Windows NT Server???)
These problems ARE ENDEMIC to the platform. Any environment that allows foreign applications to directly access the services of other local programs and the local operating system, in addtition to local data is a security nightmare. Sorry, but "signed" files won't fix it either, nor will M$'s blatant disregard from the problem by laying all the responsibility for checking document-level security on EVERYONE but themselves.
On 4/13/99 3:08 AM, Andy Daws wrote:
>This is unfair all platforms have there problems I run an NT machine >running a virus and content screening program basically because there is >no equivalent on the Mac that will scan for Macintosh and PC virus the >machine generally runs for months without crashing. Also TF is >currently incapable of handling Digitally Signed messages as it appears >to re-write the headers which appears to break the rules I'm sure this >will only be tempory as Digital Signitures take off more and more. As >with most computer platforms most problems are with drivers or >extensions sometimes old sometimes badly written. > >To be a bit pro Mac the Mac has an excellent BIOS so programmers will >use it rather than peek and poke around in the memory which can >obviously cause problems if I/O devices etc start moving in memory. --- Daniel O'Leary, Admin/WebMaster KloneZone Mac - A TeleFinder 5.7 Mac/Windows BBS
