[15:41] <reya276> morning everyone
[15:41] <reya276> http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/02/07/flaming-retort-cooling-the-linux-users/
[16:38] <maxolasersquad> reya276: I think the attitude that you can run Linux and be lazy with your security is very harmful.
[16:39] <maxolasersquad> At dslreports.com there have been a couple threads with people who have Linux boxes having security issues.  They seem to revolve around the idea the user had that they could just od whatever and not worry about it.
[16:39] <reya276> I agree, but I'm not 100% sure I agree with the article
[16:39] <reya276> specially what he is claiming when it comes to OS architecture
[16:40] <reya276> I have all my system with ClamAV and ChrootKit and I run them every month
[16:40] <reya276> just to be sure
[16:41] <maxolasersquad> I do disagree with him that Linux users should run A/V to keep other Windows users from being infected.
[16:41] <maxolasersquad> I'm not running crap on my computer.
[16:41] <reya276> I mean I'm no expert but just from what I have seen on the surface the two OS are extremely different in every way
[16:42] <reya276> and that is just in the surface I can just imagine the inner workings of it
[16:43] <maxolasersquad> Ubuntu is more secure out of the box, and the security it imposes on the users are a lot more sane than Windows as well.
[16:43] <reya276> well like I said the only thing I run is what Ubuntu recommends which is Clamav(if you want AV protection) and Chrootkit just for piece of mind, I don't do it with the intentions of keeping Windows users safe
[16:45] <reya276> be yes, I think the guy is a pro-windows advocate whom is "Claiming" let's all working together crap and starting a flame war just for the sake of starting one
[16:46] <reya276> I just wanted to hear what everyone here thought about that because it just seems weird to me that someone would say that the two OS are a lot alike
[16:46] <reya276> if that were the case then I would have never ever switched from Windows to Ubutu
[18:36] <maxolasersquad> reya276: Perhaps he meant that the user has a graphical environment where one can click icons to open programs and files, a trashcan, a home directory, etc.
[19:33] <zbrown> dantalizing: wooo you going to IO?
[19:39] <RoAkSoAx> itnet7: ping
[19:56] <itnet7> RoAkSoAx: pong
[20:00] <RoAkSoAx> itnet7: pm
[20:22] <tiemonster> My classmate keeps having trouble with AVG declaring git to be a virus. He asked me how to fix it, and I said, "wipe Windows off of your computer"
[20:22] <tiemonster> :-P
[20:32] <maxolasersquad> tiemonster: How is your app to end all apps going?
[20:36] <tiemonster> haven't started yet
[20:36] <tiemonster> our first project was to submit a patch to an open source project
[20:36] <tiemonster> we're finishing up our patch for Node.js
[20:40] <maxolasersquad> What's the patch do?
[20:48] <tiemonster> implement some missing Win32 functionality
[20:48] <tiemonster> anyways, off to class
[22:15] <reya276> maxolasersquad, LOL...yeah I guess that is the extend of the likeness and that is where it ends too