"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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__/ [ Peter Köhlmann ] on Tuesday 12 September 2006 10:04 \__
Windows users routinely get asked if "notepad.exe" or
other typical internet software should be allowed to connect to the net
until they blindly press "OK"
If the Windows XP firewall is asking you whether notepad.exe should
connect to the Internet, then the firewall has successfully done its job in
alerting you to trojan processes. Some media players (e.g. RealPlayer, at
least a year or two ago, haven't used it recently) would try to phone home.
You could use the XP firewall to prevent this as well.
People should not realise what a firewall is or does. The firewall should
just be there doing its thing with minimal levels of intervention.
_That's_
ease of use.
Agreed, and that should extend to some degree to all aspects of
computing. This is why when the user doesn't know how to do something with
the computer, I don't consider that to be the user's fault (e.g. "of course
XYZ isn't working properly! You misconfigured it!"). It's a problem to be
fixed (perhaps via more research into HCI).
Why should a Windows 2000 use be forced to purchase third-party
software to make up for the flaws of the system?
They're not. There are free antivirus programs, free firewall software,
etc.
[...]
IE7 and Vista will offer no exception to this rule either. Break up
Windows
now. It's carries STD's.
Not sure I understand your solution. Are you asking that Windows be more
modular?
- Oliver
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