Windows use in medical spaces (Re: vintage computers in active use)

[Adrian Stoness]

crypto locker on linux would work if someone exicuted it but then that
would be a user fail like most people who get infected from going to the
wrong sites and clicking crap...




On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Please can we have some specific instances of  Windows causing problems.
> > Not unqualified people at home or students but real production
> environments
> > with qualified support on hand.
> > I used every version of windows from 1 to 10.  yes XP and millennium too
> >
>
> It is susceptible to MalWare of all types. We had some XP embedded thin
> clients that got attacked by Confiker but of course they were clean after a
> re-boot
>
> but the main reason Linux and Apple isn't attacked is because there are
> many
> more window systems, although I read somewhere Apple devices were being
> targeted because Apple users had more cash..
> I see Apple has been hit by Ransom Ware...
>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/apple-targeted-by-kerange
> r-ransom-malware-for-first-time
>
> I can't see why Crypto Locker could work on ANY Linux or BSD box....
>
> > I wrote time and mission critical food distribution related software for
> the ten
> > years before I retired in vb and then vb.net (oo)  I would have seen
> just
> about
> > every possible bug in windows and in developing applications under it.
> >
> > Lets hear what others experienced.
>
> Sorry I know I have already said but generally very reliable. Some issues
> where call centre staff on XP were allowed to surf the web as
> administrators...
> ... conficker was a real problem
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker
>
>
>
> >
> > Rod
> >
> >
> Dave
> G4UGM
>
>