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VoIPowering Your Office: Skype Worm—Trouble in VoIPland

Posted by tuxchick on · 2 comments
Enterprise VoIP Planet; By Carla Schroder
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... the best encryption protocols in the world are helpless against an infected PC. They don't foil keystroke loggers, and they don't stop the busy little worms that roam unimpeded through the guts of an operating system, doing whatever they want.

If you really, really want to use secure computer systems, use Mac OS X, Linux, PC-BSD, or FreeBSD. These are far more secure, and more secure-able. Rather than following the Windows model of trying to sail a sieve, these are stout, reliable operating systems that do not roll out the red carpet to malware.

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Comments (2)

omg wtf that waz like stupidest msg evar

who fal 4 this st00pid n00bz omg ur so dumb !?
The same way I still don't get why spam works. The subject alone is usually so terribly dumb and obvious. This must be some kind of magic.

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