Windows... First of all, welcome to Anti-Online. Im sure most of you here dont like windows for one and a million reasons. For one, they spend most of their time making windows more user friendly and giving it new looks, but they dont spend time in fixing those darn loop holes and some other security flaws.

For those of you who just got your Windows 2000 Professional / Advanced Server boxes, you people should watch out coz by default your hard drive is on public sharing. Thats right, public sharing.

This means any twirp can stuff up your hard drive without you knowing what the heck is happening to your computer... A lot of my friends (and enemies) fell for that lame security flaw.

What kind of OS designers would put the hard drive on public file sharing by default?

Only Microsoft... I have used and violated all the different Microsoft Windows O/S. From Windows 95 all the way through Windows NT to Windows XP. And still they have security risk issues.


Take Windows XP for instead. Every one is very excited about windows XP coz its new and has new features, and somehow hoping its more secure. But really? Its not secure... as usual Microsoft made another silly mistake by putting in a Desktop Sharing service.

If you dont know what Desktop Sharing is.. It is a feature where in another user can control your PC as if they were actually sitting infront of it... In english, its a thinga-majig where some person who also uses Windows XP can controll your PC which has Windows XP in it.

Surely it sounds so dumb. Their reason to put this service was to make technical help a lot more easier. But without knowing that it also makes cracking a lot more easier for lammers who have no life but just pestering normal innocent users. Surely it is turned off by default. But what makes you so sure that no one will develop a worm/trojan that would turn the Desktop Sharing services on?... Another dumb mistake done by Microsoft.

So for all those Windows XP users, dont be surprised that one day your mouse would suddenly move by itself and start deleting your system files. Blame it on the "new technology" Microsoft developed.

I too use Windows...

I have Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 98 and Red Hat in one box and a Windows XP on another. And if there's anyone who knows alot about Windows in here, that would be me.

I use windows coz 80% of the software around is Windows compatible and doesnt run on Linux. But i would never use Windows for security, I use my Linux. As of now, Im still learning my Linux.

And I tell you... the security is a lot more better here considering you can configure 80% of a linux O/S. So do yourself a favour. When using Windows... make sure that Mr. Gates didnt leave any rat holes... coz who knows.. one day a rat might come in and mess your systems up..."