[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jp0rk3$jlg$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 
> I rarely re-boot, and I never turn on automatic updates.

   This is reportedly the most common cause of actual Windows security
   failures.  The crackers examine the patches to find out where the
   security hole is, and then attack unpatched systems.

   I long ago found I can never rely on how Windows does things.  So
   when I must use Windows, I take what it does as what it does.  And
   on the very rare occaision that I have to program on Windows I
   use cygwin and let the good folks who do cygwin keep up the fight
   with how Windows changes.  The cygwin API is stable.