kidding? You mean “getting”, right?

Well, that’s because you’re using a half-arse operating system that is developed and maintained by a two-bit company!

If you’re using a decent OS that is being developed by people who actually give a shit, you can actually take on a far higher workload than a Windows Admin. ie: One admin can cover more systems than a Windows one.

I believe this itself, justifies the higher cost of a Linux, Unix, BSD or Solaris Admin.

What really annoys me is that this recent ANI vulnerability was also carried to Windows Vista! (This issue was supposedly fixed 2 yrs ago on WinXP, and then it was unfixed somehow!…The code was then carried into Vista!)

And yes, I’ve seen a Vista box get exploited by this ANI issue. Its not pretty, and there is no way to really fix things when Explorer keeps restarting itself in an infinite crash loop! (Only way to resolve seems to just format the darn thing)…And no, it doesn’t help if you boot into Safe Mode.

This proves one thing…No matter what MS does with Windows, it doesn’t address the fact that they have made some serious design decisions (and coding implementations) that greatly effect their product. (This is mainly to meet deadlines and the insistance not to start all over again).

NONE of the built-in security features MS tooted about (to sell Vista), were able to stop or contain this ANI issue. This confirms that security band-aids mean shit when the code itself hasn’t been seriously audited and re-written.

The next time you hear the words “Microsoft” and “Security” in the same sentence, you know from history, its all BS to sell you a product.