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Thanks to Robert Scoble for the response and the traffic. Anyways, Robert Scoble responded to but didn’t really say much. Basically he pushed his 14 point security plan for Windows again. I still think its way too expensive to get the illusion of security under Windows. Most of it ammounts to buy more software / hardware or buy newer versions of Microsoft products. If you are running Windows and can afford to follow his advice you probably should or else you’ll find yourself in as Chris and Kevin. However, I still recomend just replacing it with a better product like a combo of Linux, OpenOffice, and Mozilla. You’ll find yourself more secure and you’ll save yourself a ton of cash. Windows is just too damn expensive as is, why fork over all that additional cash to secure it when something cheaper and better exists? Maybe the increasing cost of securing Windows is why I have not been able to find a single unpriated copy of Windows while traveling here in Argentina 🙂

I wonder what Scoble has to say about . His recomendation cant possibly be upgrade like it was last time can it? All four of these bugs exist in all recent versions of Windows and Longhorn wont be out for years. It can’t be firewalls since all four of them involve just loading a file or image. And didnt MSFT just end of life NT 4? Does that mean anyone running NT 4 is out of luck? Lets count how many days till MSFT releases a patch, I bet it doesn’t come out till after new years if not the end of January. I wonder how Scoble will defend this.