RE: off topic - e-mail software

Hello,

> heh, heh, sounds like you/outlook/xp live in a perfect world, 
> there isn't one. 

>From the tone of your post I would have assumed you were the one who
lived in a perfect world. I mean seeing as how FreeBSD owns anything
Microsoft ever released. Please. All that babble is only relevant to an
individuals needs and preferences. FreeBSD is lacking in many areas. The
main areas would be software and hardware. FreeBSD comes up short where
support from software vendors is concerned. Although software is
open-source and free it is completely without standards and often
written by someone in their basement who isn't about to do support
calls. Do you use a digital camera? Probably not if you use FreeBSD. I
could go on and on about hardware, but you get the point. It is not at
all user friendly and requires a good bit of time to become proficient
with. The bottom line is you sacrifice ease of use and compatibility for
security and low cost maintenance. How does this make it better? It's
not a better OS, it is a different OS with a different set of issues.
FreeBSD owns in some situations and blows Microsoft's @#%# in others.

> Lookout, oops again - Outlook, is more insecure and more 
> easily hacked by script-kiddies, whence the larger portion of viruses
are 
> written to exploit is weaknesses, of which there are many. Micro$oft
is well 
> aware of this.

Who the hell wants to write a virus for FreeBSD anyways? The original
post is more accurate. Crackers target Microsoft applications due to the
vast number of installations. Why shoot for 10,000 systems when you can
hit 1,000,000. Put Free BSD on that many systems and it will get it's
brains hacked out. There is always a cracker better than the guys who
wrote the application.
 
> Oh geez, did Micro$oft put some sort of firewall stuff in xp? 
> Sounds like pipe dreams. Firewall software and/or hardware belongs on
a 
> server between the client workstation and the internet. 

It's not a full fledged firewall. It's more like Zone Alarm built into
the system. It is more than sufficient for the average home user and
with it turned on a, port scan by Shields Up! reports your IP as being
in Stealth Mode; virtually invisible to the outside world. Unless you
pissed someone off, I doubt you would need much more. It works quite
well for what it is.

Regards,
Mike

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