So the lesson of the story is the only way to browse with Windows safely is to have your browser running on Linux...?
Microsoft needs to ditch their code base and follow Apple’s lead and adopt a BSD core. I once heard that some Windows 3.1 and even DOS code is still in the Windows code base, written before network security was an issue. It can NEVER be secured. It’s like building a tall building and forgetting to plug up the holes... no matter how you patch it the mice will always find a way in.
>>So the lesson of the story is the only way to browse with
>>Windows safely is to have your browser running on Linux...?
I suppose that depends on your definition of browsing. I can think of browsing that wouldn’t be safe on a Linux box.
Firefox + NoScript is reasonably safe on a Windows box.
I’m a self employed computer consultant, and 100% of the people who have come to me for business software consulting over the last 17 years have been running some form of Windows. That’s not to say they haven’t had Novell app servers and Apache web servers or some guy in the back designing their logo on a Mac, but the end users tend to use Windows machines, and I go where the money is at.
Linux has painted itself into a corner IMHO, simply based on the insane names that the programmers have used for all of the utilities. Simple end users don’t want to grep something... they want to search for it. They don’t want to sudo up some administrative rights... they want to run as administrator.
Don’t get me wrong... I love Linux and run it regularly under VirtualBox and VMWare, but the general public will never accept it as main stream in its present form.