Even though there are 4 ways to use the Windows system to evade this protection, and malware authors will do it, your LibreOffice broke. Windows Security is so godawful that they add tons and tons of fake security bullet points that are trivially bypassed and probably don’t do much except break legitimate applications that are just too old to anticipate them, or need to write somewhere and aren’t automatically allowed to.ĭid you enable Controlled Folder Access to “protect against Ransomware” and now LibreOffice can’t save your documents?Ĭongratulations. The media, bribed by Microsoft money, never mentions Windows. "Grabbing random things from the Internet and hoping for the best is how most software gets installed on Windows."That’s why you hear about Ransomware attacks that mean no gasoline on the eastern seaboard of America or how a poultry plant can’t process chickens. So, antivirus on Windows becomes mostly a guessing game except for the very most prevalent threats.Īnd when this happens, many threats are missed. They don’t even try to keep up with detection patterns for most specific threats because they can’t. In fact, according to most antivirus companies, Windows gets that in under a typical hour. Grabbing random things from the Internet and hoping for the best is how most software gets installed on Windows. You had to defy GNU/Linux best practices of getting signed packages from your distribution or other trusted source, and grab random unsigned software from some internet site and jam it in somehow. In the past 20 years, GNU/Linux has had fewer viruses and worms than you can count on your fingers which were even worth mentioning. They just changed the signaling.Īnd of course, it’s easier to try to imply that GNU/Linux has problems than it is to fix your own Windows mess. “Get The Facts”, “GPL is Communism”, and “Linux is a cancer”, never stopped. They just changed the signaling."It’s hard to come up with a better description of what Microsoft has been doing for the past two decades. "“Get The Facts”, “GPL is Communism”, and “Linux is a cancer”, never stopped. Garrison, as a stand in for Donald Trump, defined something called DARVO, wherein the bully denies their bad behavior, then goes on the attack by reversing the victim and offender. In some cases, when they refer to “Linux malware”, they mean malware that runs on Windows if you use the fake Linux (virtual machine with bad performance) in Windows, called WSL/WSL2.Īnd frankly, I’m getting sick and damned tired of Microsoft paying for this crap to be typed up and then Googlebombing Linux as part of their most recent smear campaign. Even if it’s a part of Windows (like OpenSSL is). In these churnalism articles, EVERYTHING with an open source license inevitably becomes “Linux”, even if it has the same problem on Windows. Microsoft pays the “tech media” to imply otherwise, but it always turns out to be a bald-faced lie. GNU/Linux has never had a big malware problem. Sometime they lose billions of dollars and quietly write it down. They have many of them, like Windows Phone. Nobody bought the product and it was just another Microsoft FAIL. "Sometime they lose billions of dollars and quietly write it down."Someone got Grub (the bootloader program commonly used with GNU/Linux) to work on the Surface RT, but GNU/Linux was never ported to these things due to lack of interest at the time. Something that may be coming with new “Windows 11” PCs, since Secure Boot is required or else Windows will refuse to load. It was necessary to escape Secure Boot were there to be any other operating systems for these devices, because there was no option to turn it off. Microsoft introduced the Windows RT (ARM, not the standard x86 instruction set CPU) devices, based on Windows 8, and there was a Secure Boot escape almost immediately. uEFI firmware has been so horrendously bad from its inception that there’s always a Secure Boot escape. The problem is that Secure Boot doesn’t actually work. S ecure Boot is Microsoft trash that was designed to paper over some of the reputation of Windows as a malware plaything. Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission from the original
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