Re: Is OpenBSD more secure than Windows?
From: Shane (aka froggy) (spamspamuber.l33t.god_at_spamgmail.com)
Date: 03/25/05
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:44:06 +1200
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:32:11 -0300, Unknown User wrote:
> I bought a computer and it had Windows installed and I'm thinking about
> moving to OpenBSD, but from my research, OpenBSD is less secure than
> Windows because you can't install install Norton anti-virus on OpenBSD. I
> wouldn't be able to access the Internet then, using OpenBSD. I also found
> out that you can't have Internet Explorer on OpenBSD, and I wonder how I
> would surf the web other than with Internet Explorer.
> I really hope Microsoft ports Internet Explorer to OpenBSD and that
> Symantec releases a version for OpenBSD to protect it, so that I can give
> it a try. Without Internet Explorer, OpenBSD is pretty unusable, sorry.
wouldnt this troll be funnier if he/she wasnt using Opera, and used
Outlook express instead?
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