Hi forum friends,
I could have known where this thread would go when I started this one... Well, sometimes one cannot go round a link about MS versus linux or open software versus closed software. Yes, my good forum friends, and as long as we can keep emotions out of the debate, it is all-right - we learn all the way, and how!
I don't mind having the litany read about the one or the other platform, the pro's and cons, I do not mind I was no one's fanboy- never, and I am open-minded,
I think I had a lot of profit from open software contributions, as there are - firekeeper, snort, analyzing coding, script reversal, script analysis - these issues are the very gifts the open software community brought us and we have to be ever grateful - they taught me, you, us a lot.
And as for MS, I am critical but never a MS basher and I for one like to know more about their dll's and their hooks and API's to be better protected about what malcreants can do there...
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Why they are taking the dll help file for developers off coming February, is beyond me If they only taught the common user to tweak their OS for security, drop full admin rights as per application (drop rights via specific system proggies), explain their trust model etc. etc. we would have far, far less malware in the world. If a NoScript extension like that of good magician (former hacker) Giorgio Maone would find its way to every browser on whatever platform and AdBlocking came available for those that aren't opening spam because they never get mailed - it would be another world. Two sides of the coin, flip it and look at them unbiased if you can...
polonus