David Jones
December 5th 03, 07:51 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>In summary: the problem is that by default my PC is open
>to someone remotely getting control of my drive and
being
>able to do anything they want to it, purely because of
>the failings of XP.
How? What unpatched mechanism of XP allows people to
remotely get control of your drive and do anything they
want with it?
>Nothing that anyone's said here negates that fact.
You haven't provided evidence that there is such a fact.
>Other people's [Use a firewall] response is irrational
as
>99% of people who use a PC don't even know what a
>firewall is, let alone know how to configure it.
There's a box in the XP connection wizard to turn on the
firewall, and I believe it's even checked by default if
I'm not mistaken. There are numerous articles explaining
step-by-step what it is and what it does.
What configuration is needed?
>
>Most people just want to plug the computer in, and go.
That's all they have to do. The wizard will let them
check the box to turn on the firewall too.
>shelf with at least some form of default protection.
It does, the firewall I've mentioned.
>Most people assume that when they buy a pc and use XP,
>that microsoft would/should not by default allow other
>people to gain access to their PC as soon as they plug
it
>into a phone socket.
It doesn't. Where's your evidence about this?
>Besides which, the XP firewall doesn't work properly.
How so? What doesn't it do?
>Does anybody here understand/appreciate my argument, or
>is everybody on the planet supposed to have a degree in
>comms ?
My relatives all use XP, all barely can use computers,
yet somehow managed to check the box for the firewall
without me even telling them about it.
My relatives have also not been hacked, without me doing
any configuration.
Now, are you going to provide concrete proof, or just
spout off?
>In summary: the problem is that by default my PC is open
>to someone remotely getting control of my drive and
being
>able to do anything they want to it, purely because of
>the failings of XP.
How? What unpatched mechanism of XP allows people to
remotely get control of your drive and do anything they
want with it?
>Nothing that anyone's said here negates that fact.
You haven't provided evidence that there is such a fact.
>Other people's [Use a firewall] response is irrational
as
>99% of people who use a PC don't even know what a
>firewall is, let alone know how to configure it.
There's a box in the XP connection wizard to turn on the
firewall, and I believe it's even checked by default if
I'm not mistaken. There are numerous articles explaining
step-by-step what it is and what it does.
What configuration is needed?
>
>Most people just want to plug the computer in, and go.
That's all they have to do. The wizard will let them
check the box to turn on the firewall too.
>shelf with at least some form of default protection.
It does, the firewall I've mentioned.
>Most people assume that when they buy a pc and use XP,
>that microsoft would/should not by default allow other
>people to gain access to their PC as soon as they plug
it
>into a phone socket.
It doesn't. Where's your evidence about this?
>Besides which, the XP firewall doesn't work properly.
How so? What doesn't it do?
>Does anybody here understand/appreciate my argument, or
>is everybody on the planet supposed to have a degree in
>comms ?
My relatives all use XP, all barely can use computers,
yet somehow managed to check the box for the firewall
without me even telling them about it.
My relatives have also not been hacked, without me doing
any configuration.
Now, are you going to provide concrete proof, or just
spout off?