Time for Microsoft Windows PC's to be blocked from Internet Access

Following the recent DDOS attacks against twitter, facebook and google
from Microsoft Windows botnets isn't it time for Windows to be blocked
from any Internet access? Microsoft Windows botnets also spew billions
of SPAM email every day. Why should everyone suffer because Microsoft
are unable to produce a secure operating system?

Wintrolls Lie wrote:
> Following the recent DDOS attacks against twitter, facebook and google
> from Microsoft Windows botnets isn't it time for Windows to be blocked
> from any Internet access? Microsoft Windows botnets also spew billions
> of SPAM email every day. Why should everyone suffer because Microsoft
> are unable to produce a secure operating system?
>
>

OS X has a Botnet it's called iBotnet. How do you know
that none of the attacks came from OS X boxes? How does an OS X
user know if they have iBotnet or not? If they did ban all
Windows PCs from the internet, they would be putting botnets on
UNIX(OS X) and Linux systems. You guys just DON'T get it.

John

John Slade stated in post h5i1jj$9bu$ on 8/7/09
1:00 PM:

> Wintrolls Lie wrote:
>> Following the recent DDOS attacks against twitter, facebook and google
>> from Microsoft Windows botnets isn't it time for Windows to be blocked
>> from any Internet access? Microsoft Windows botnets also spew billions
>> of SPAM email every day. Why should everyone suffer because Microsoft
>> are unable to produce a secure operating system?
>>
>>
>
> OS X has a Botnet it's called iBotnet. How do you know
> that none of the attacks came from OS X boxes? How does an OS X
> user know if they have iBotnet or not? If they did ban all
> Windows PCs from the internet, they would be putting botnets on
> UNIX(OS X) and Linux systems. You guys just DON'T get it.
>
> John


We do not get "it", with "it" being malware. Windows users often do.


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John Slade wrote:

> Wintrolls Lie wrote:
>> Following the recent DDOS attacks against twitter, facebook and google
>> from Microsoft Windows botnets isn't it time for Windows to be blocked
>> from any Internet access? Microsoft Windows botnets also spew billions
>> of SPAM email every day. Why should everyone suffer because Microsoft
>> are unable to produce a secure operating system?
>>
>>
>
> OS X has a Botnet it's called iBotnet. How do you know
> that none of the attacks came from OS X boxes? How does an OS X
> user know if they have iBotnet or not? If they did ban all
> Windows PCs from the internet, they would be putting botnets on
> UNIX(OS X) and Linux systems. You guys just DON'T get it.

Certainly iBotnet exists.
The *only* way that is can spread is by downloading pirated copies of
software - currently pirated copies of iWork ’09 or Adobe Photoshop CS4 by
P2P. It can *not* replicate itself, and the only way that it spreads is
via such a pirated copy.
This is a long way removed from the way that Windows malware spreads!

Could it apply to Linux?
Presumably so. All that is needed is to download and run such code.
Odds are even more reduced though - how many Linux users do you suppose
pirate Linux software?

How would a OSX user know if he had it? Presumably by scanning his
computer?

You are quite right though - we categorically do *not* get it :-)

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:47:10 +0000, Wintrolls Lie wrote:

> Following the recent DDOS attacks against twitter, facebook and google
> from Microsoft Windows botnets isn't it time for Windows to be blocked
> from any Internet access? Microsoft Windows botnets also spew billions
> of SPAM email every day. Why should everyone suffer because Microsoft
> are unable to produce a secure operating system?

A goal devoutly to be wished but, from a practical standpoint, probably
not gonna happen.

Fa-groon wrote:
> Elijah Baley wrote:
>> Wintrolls Lie wrote:
>>
>>> Following the recent DDOS attacks against twitter,
>>> facebook and google from Microsoft Windows botnets isn't
>>> it time for Windows to be blocked from any Internet
>>> access? Microsoft Windows botnets also spew billions of
>>> SPAM email every day. Why should everyone suffer because
>>> Microsoft are unable to produce a secure operating system?
>>>
>>
>> Amen to that, brother! This "piece of crap", aka Windows,
>> should be banned from the internet. It's a menace to
>> civilization and a testimony to the stupidity of man.
>
> I'll vote for that!

ME TOO! ME TOO! :-)

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> Here is the source code for Linux http://www.kernel.org
>
> Seeing as you got it, and have such immense IQ, please go
> write a botnet for Linux and prove to the world
> how much you got it, and upload the source code with appropriate
> comments in the code to one of the repositories so that kernel
> maintainers
> can read your code, understand it, and then compile
> it and distribute it for you to dowstream users so that they
> too can enjoy the benefits of your botnet.

Is it really that hard to run a program in Linux? No wonder it is so
unpopular an OS. <bpo>

Here I had thought that the main function of an OS was to facillitate
the execution of programs of the user's choice. Sad that so much needs
to be done to get Linux to execute a simple network robot. <sigh>

Wintrolls Lie wrote:
> Following the recent DDOS attacks against twitter, facebook and google
> from Microsoft Windows botnets isn't it time for Windows to be blocked
> from any Internet access? Microsoft Windows botnets also spew billions
> of SPAM email every day. Why should everyone suffer because Microsoft
> are unable to produce a secure operating system?
>


Why do you nymshift so often, Roy Culley?

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:46:28 -0700, Ben Hyatt wrote:

> Wintrolls Lie wrote:
>> Following the recent DDOS attacks against twitter, facebook and google
>> from Microsoft Windows botnets isn't it time for Windows to be blocked
>> from any Internet access? Microsoft Windows botnets also spew billions
>> of SPAM email every day. Why should everyone suffer because Microsoft
>> are unable to produce a secure operating system?
>>
>
>
> Why do you nymshift so often, Roy Culley?

SOP for Roy Culley.

cc wrote:

> On Aug 28, 8:46Â*am, Ben Hyatt <b...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Wintrolls Lie wrote:
>> > Following the recent DDOS attacks against twitter, facebook and google
>> > from Microsoft Windows botnets isn't it time for Windows to be blocked
>> > from any Internet access? Microsoft Windows botnets also spew billions
>> > of SPAM email every day. Â*Why should everyone suffer because Microsoft
>> > are unable to produce a secure operating system?
>>
>> Why do you nymshift so often, Roy Culley?
>
> I'm Roy Culley.

If you are Roy Culley, who is flatfish????