This video goes over the fundamental flaws in the Windows operating system and why it gets malware so easily. I detail where it fails compared to other operating systems.
3 Points of Security Failure
-Unassisted Admin User elevation
-Drivers are installed outside the kernel by default
-No permissions assigned to individual programs
Wannacry Exploit 5-12-2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
Huawei Exploit 3-26-2019
ZDNet Article: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-windows-10-devices-open-to-full-compromise-from-huawei-pc-driver/ .
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Windows is a POS spyware OS, switch to Linux
Bill Gates invested in Antivirus companies in the 90s and created Windows viruses.
Windows is a poorly designed system. macOS and Linux have the advantages of being UNIX-like. Therefore it has made those platforms much appealing for security minded users. The issue is software that is keeping people on Windows. Tools like Bloomberg Terminal, Solidworks, and many others are Windows-only. As soon as there are good alternatives people will most likely jump ship.
You can't trust anyone. It is written in the best Book in this world. (The BIBLE ) ✌ðŸ½ðŸ’™ðŸŒ
There is Security Flaws and the performance is worse, Windows has to run multiple apps for a single button to work properly. I think Linux just uses all-in-one program.
Windows is the most used OS, thus the hacker has more luck to hit a Windows user.
Windows lacks a multi-layered protection like Linus.
Microsoft is working on Windows Core OS since 2017. I hope things will be better if release of Windows based on that system.
Found a really bad virus on my newly purchased Dell Laptop. It seems to have sent a lot of personal data to somewhere where I'm not in control of them anymore. It was called Windows 10, I finally got rid of it when I installed Linux Mint.
people can exploit certain "bug" in their driver…
yea bug. sure…
Great. Now do one of why people get infected with malware so easily
That is about a coronavirus getting into wicked windows.
A very clear and simple explanation, yet thorough. I experimented with Linux back in the late 90's and it seemed so much better and so much more "logical." It motivated you to become shell script expert because of how much more effective and in control you'd be once you get a hang of some useful functions and understanding of a computer language. The problem with Linux from the very beginning is that simply there was not enough COMMERCIAL development. Microsoft was an aggressive corporation out to MAKE MONEY and … MAKE EVEN MORE MONEY. Windows was ultimately shaped by corporate BUSINESS OBJECTIVES and corporate BUSINESS STRATEGY. A part of the +long term+ business strategy was to make Windows the ONE computer system on which everyone depended, including and especially the developers – other commercial enterprises: computer software developers.
And we have to admit – they NAILED IT! Purely from a point of a money-making BUSINESS ENTERPRISE, Microsoft was a great success – an American icon so to speak, no pun intended. Microsoft attracted professionals from around the world. It was one of the main places where software developers wanted to work – especially at the time when the whole computer age was just beginning. I also took to learning computer programming back then, but then switched to accounting and exploration of my personal "passion subject" – CONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPMENT. That's where the next revolution will occur – the revolution in the sphere of human consciousness. But that's another subject.
What is the BUSINESS STRATEGY for Microsoft now? I would say that it is no longer a business enterprise but a kind of "business-like" agency that now uses Microsoft's position in the sphere of technology to do what it needs to do, whatever that may be. I think even if only on the level of intuition a lot of people have been sensing there is something fundamentally wrong with the "new direction" or a new "philosophy" emanated by (what used to be) the business company of Microsoft. It's even perceptible on the level of INTENTION. They have made it HARDER FOR YOU to control the system and easier for themselves – whoever that may be now. There is definitely a perceptible presence of a "new hand" in this that is just IMPOSING CONTROL over the system and its users. It's an INTRUSION into your personal sphere of activity, and this advancing intrusion is quite palpable.
I think you missed one important concern: from my notes Windows implements virtual memory but does not implement memory protection as does Linux where memory pages are marked READ|EXECUTE for "text" pages (which contain executable code) and READ|WRITE pages — which contain data. If I remember right Linux even had an initiative proposed to make running in memory protected mode a requirement — but I've not read anything on this for a while now
Huawei is pronounced whoahway.
Most linux websites get hacked.ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
I never get malware on windows. Always get software from trusted sites and pay for them. You will never get virus. You are just linux fanboy.
I have windows 10 is rubbish- I had windows 7 pro which was better. My son comes soon and I hope will fix things, I hope. Thanks Chris. Chuck Maki ( I have sub'd to you but at age 81, I am hesitant.
Linux>windows
The main issue with Windows is its backword compatibilities. Our company uses software written in PowerBuilder and FoxPro. They are already 20years old and our company still using then on Windows 7 PCs. That powerbuiler software still running with Windows 10. I don't think there is any other OS supports such legacy software. All our ships are using such legacy software because none of the manufacturer provides updates to their software. Software is a small component in industry when compare with other things they do. Companies does not shell out huge sums for software maintenance unless they are legally bound to. They still use scanners and printers on the ship which saw their first light in stone age. Companies expects them as well as newer hardware to work with OS that they are using. When your OS needs to support such software then you really have a little window to make changes. All those old software uses older APIs to access system resources. Your OS have to live with it.
"Why Windows gets malware so easily"
Short answer: Because it's designed to do that.
Corollary: Why doesn't Mac OS have all that malware?
Answer: Because their marketshare is so low, and their users aren't in finance, there's no point.
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I know this is an older vid, but I am curious how windows malware would act on a Linux host running mono and wine (e.g., Lutris/Proton).
1:56 one command, sudo, is LOADS of things, right? xD
I used windows 7 for very long time without updating it, I never noticed anyone hacking me and my accounts are all safe. What really made me switch to linux is for software development purpose. I still use Microsoft products in linux like Visual Code.
I have malwear- I look for something and the word "cancel" which I did not write. so I found a long program which I sent to my son
Adressing your last question. Linux is open-source and suppose to make open-source every system its code used in, so some ppl see a danger in using open-source system for govermental systems. Other issue is that some ppl who are afraid of new things and afraid to look incompetent at their job lobby windows for govermental systems and at their companies, because they are familiar with it. Recently Russia decided switch to linux, but I don't know if they open source of the systems they are using (because they change it). If not, it's a violation of license. But maybe they do