Why Windows Gets Viruses So Often
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2024
- In this video I discuss why Windows gets viruses more often than Linux and the Mac OS
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The amount of software and games that run as admin is so large that you are pretty much desensitized to admin requests and just press yes automatically...
biggest mistake i made when i switched to linux.
@@lettuce7378 But you're a lettuce.
How can you make this mistake?
@@HAWXLEADER obviously he entered a human and got admin acess, so he can do that easily.
@@fabio5286 script kiddies run always as root lmao because their skid tools they download require admin shit for even printing text to the terminal
@@KKk-zj6lv What we need is a NEW Commodore OS not an emulation but a NEW one that isn't compatible with anything so it will be designed from the ground up where it's ROM on top of RAM similar to the old one in that respects. You can then turn it off and on with no problems and NOT get any viruses. The Commodore 64 ACTUALLY can get a virus if you go online with it but the virus vanishes as SOON as you turn off the machine it goes back to where it was before.
The thumbnails only gets better and better
The truth is strong with this one.
Does he watch anime
@creative name The question is "Which character will it be?"
@GNU pluse User name They emit darkness.
@creative name lol almost
People keep telling me "I'm supposed to install an anti malware program" regardless of whether I'm running Linux or Windows
Jokes on them 'cause I run TempleOS
@e.e.M. iii
No religion in the UA-cam comment section, please.
@@Yuriyalloween You glowies are just mad because Terry knew about the space aliens
My laptop is so old the CPU ain't got time for that
Jokes on them, I use Plan 9, OpenBSD, BeOS and IRIX
No network means no viruses
I may be a masochist, but there’s something about a guy on the internet constantly reminding me of how much of a normie I am that really gets me coming back for more. I love your videos, man. I find them very educational and entertaining!
why do you watch them and decide to continue being a "normie"
Wanna know why i think you're a weeb? Because you use the word "normie"
@@outrageous5363 honestly wish I was. The fullest extent of anime that I watch is just attack on titan 😂, and I can’t remember perfectly, since this comment is upwards of 3 months old, but I’m pretty sure the only reason why I used the word, “normie” was because I was directly quoting the UA-camr.
@@emeraldbonsai thank you so much for replying to a comment 10 months old that was really needed
@@outrageous5363 oh boohoo shutup, mom. can you pick me up a milk shake and sandwich im thirsty
"creative artsy blogposters" this is the best description for mac users i ever heard
this tbh XD funny thing is they used to be the nerds
That hit me hard but was funny ngl because I’m a Mac user
@@crazydog3307 web developers mainly use Mac though
It’s funny how MS depends that much on legacy support while apple can just say „just buy a new Mac every few years“ and their customers are fine with it :D
It's because the Mac OS server market share is near zero. They don't even make the xserve anymore because no one bought them. At the endpoint, a decent corporation updates their workstation every three to five years, some high end machines can last even less, the version of windows running there will be almost always the last one. But in the server side things get ugly. Many companies have critical software that can date back from the 80's. Systems that were never updated, only migrated the hardware when it failed. These software represent the core of their business, and or the companies that developed it don't exist anymore or they were internally developed and the team that made it is retired or dead. They're compatible to nothing, the data sometimes can't be exported. I've seen companies that had to develop a "middle man" system that access the data as if it was a user, and rewrites it to the new database. These stupid old system are not windows, but there are stuff from the 90's running on windows NT that are in the same situation. The data is locked there and reading those databases are as easy as translating a slab with Aramaic script on it. A
That's also the reason why corporate don't buy macs. Apart from a few CEO's and hipster programmers nobody uses Apple PCs. Macs are for "independent" work, which basically translates to "work that doesn't depend on the Mac". I.e. you can throw away the mac and not lose your investment in business software. In latest years with web software being the norm that has changed a bit, but still nobody orders a macOS app to be built for their business. You can use a web app from Mac(or any other OS), but it won't be built for Mac. On the other hand there is plenty of Windows software still being built, especially for corporate.
@@RoboticParanoia '' I've seen companies that had to develop a "middle man" system that access the data as if it was a user, and rewrites it to the new database. ''
To be fair tho this is the bread and butter of your average IT guy tho
@@RoboticParanoia Unless you're talking about a fully manual conversion i.e not an automated ''man in the middle system''
Oh yeah, one-way-electric (because processor turns down) is what we need in this century.. Oh wait there is still a big Enemy we are feeding - the climate change
Well yes, legacy support on windows is a reason for it's craptastic security model, but it is also a key reason why it has a lion share in a desktop market. A lot of people want their old programs they might still depend on to just work on newer systems.
I was working at Apple when they completely dropped support for 32 bit programs. They really just do that, man. We had so many angry creatives that couldn't run software they depend on for work, looking for ways to get their computers back to the old version
Windows is the Todd Howard operating system. "It just works"
@@jaceybella1267 Their fault for using outdated software.
@@basedandredpilled7920 generally I'd agree, but there were plenty of people using still supported software that got screwed by the switch. DJ's in particular! Not every job or hobby requires you to use the newest stuff anyway, and having your stuff go incompatible on a device it's run on for years is frustrating
@@jaceybella1267 apple users get what they deserve
simple as
Why does Windows get malware? End users mostly.
I can't even manage to get a virus on windows unless I'm a complete dumbass.
I haven't gotten a virus in at least 7 years.
One time i got a ransomware, but i knew from before that it was a virus. I'm a dumbass not because i can't differenciate between something that contains a virus or not but because i don't care anyways
@@BlackDragon-tf6rv same lol
I've never got a virus
What I think (before watching the video):
Things that make Windows insecure:
1. The way you install software
Most software in Windows is downloaded from websites (and most of them not verified by Microsoft). On most other more secure OSs, you have app stores or package managers, which by default use official repositories. And using the official repos you can install most software you need, at least in Linux.
2. The market share
Windows has the most market share on the desktop, meaning that virus makers prioritize it over other operating systems.
3. Windows relies on backwards compatibillity for appeal
Most people and companies use Windows, because their existing software works on it. This creates a problem for Microsoft tough: to make Windows truly secure, they need to add security improvements, which can break compatibility and that is a big no no for Microsoft, since these programs need the less secure architecture of Windows to work properly
4. Registry, Calls to system DLLs, etc.
These are features, which make Windows less secure, because they involve directly modifying the system files. Not easily patchable without breaking compatibility.
5. The elevated application access
Most Windows users are more gullible to running something with elevated priviledges without thinking about it, which makes it easy for an application to get admin access and then make itself a scheduled task, which can run as the built in Administrator account on startup without a password. Ouch...
6. Weak materials
It's made of glass. What did you expect? Anybody can just look in and with a hammer even break in. Jokes aside, telemetry is another security weak point in Windows. Think about what happens when a skilled can get into Microsoft's servers and remotely install malware on anyone's computer using the app auto-install feature nobody likes?
Edit:
After watching:
Yeah, he probably agrees with my points. I forgot about the drivers lol! Having third party programs that have kernel level access is really bad and a potential for rootkits (You don't want those).
@Ben T. yes, and I've also discovered that the hard drive just keeps going when idling for no apparent reason
Also, a virus is in my pc ( sally trojan) . Ok? I know that it is a virus. When i try to remove it with normal, then admin and after that straight commandline privileges it shows an error. As if it is a system file. Fine, i booted in my live usb, removed it, and my windows starting to get even slow.
Plus this virus removed my every Microsoft store app so props to the guy. And now my laptop ( i accidentally wrote pc) boots in 3.58 seconds. And shut down in 2.45 seconds
Then again, the executable package archive is genius, and it's totally worth the potential for malware.
With my knowledge of Minecraft, I can tell you that windows are made of glass, which is made of sand. If you've watched StarWars, then you'll know the wise man's quote: "Sand is coarse and gets everywhere". I can see that it has indeed gotten everywhere, and now many PCs have Windows.
"Calls to system DLLs"
Why is this a problem? Linux has these as well.
I think one major flaw is the missing executable flag on files, especially from a general users view. I mean on Windows you can basically pick any .exe file, give it an .jpeg icon and providing someone else using Windows a link to it online. They will download it and click on it to look for a picture but the .exe file will get executed instead.
You can not do this on any Linux distribution without bending its configurations to get very confusing. Because Linux won't hide the extension of files as default, you will notice what's a picture and what's an executable. Linux won't store icons in executables which can trick users to click on them and Linux won't make files executable by file extension but by its flags and the default case of these flags says "not executable". So the file will not be executed even if you click on it accidentally.
I think the most similar experience you can realistically get on Linux is that .exe files are configured to get executed with wine as default when you click on them. But you can put your wine prefix inside of a container or some sandbox to ensure those made for Windows binaries don't harm your system or even some user files. They shouldn't get root privilege anyway.
@Lenny McLennington You don't have to name it .jpeg on Windows to trick anyone because default extensions are hidden. So .jpeg and .exe look the same in case of filenames... ^^'
Tobias Frisch you can name it "example.jpeg.exe", Windows hides file extensions by default when it is a known one, so unless the user disables that he would only see the name as "example.jpeg". I have already seen some "music.mp3.exe" files out there
@Peter Andrijeczko I would agree that those shouldn't be hidden in the first place. But the general user won't open any settings and configurations they don't know about... so most Windows users keep it as default which is pretty worrying.
@Peter Andrijeczko Yes, most file formats can be determined via their header which contains an identification string. But while binary formats implement something like this, text based formats like json for example completely ignore it. It becomes also less common that people specify a doctype in the first line of html files, so recognizing those formats would be quite inefficient without extension.
@@木原篤郎-b4m I know, i had a cyber attack 2 years ago my windows 7. Damn the djvu. Yeah. I know about that hiding flaw
Thanks for going in depth into this instead of just saying Windows has the largest marketshare.
as someone who knows how to program C++ the security is just abysmal, you can literally BSOD windows without admin privileges, you can also entirely corrupt the boot sector with less than 10 lines of code
Thats why my golden rule is: rely and install as less 3rd party stuff as possible. Sadly, that’s almost impossible on windows, because the only advantage it has is to ts huge library of 3rd party programs, drivers and games.
or just like, be intelligent about what you're installing XD
3rd party programs are what gives pc's their real power, since anyone anywhere can make useful software instead of just a few big tech firms
there's a _kernel_ of truth to stereotypes.
Duh, it's linux!
Also NT is old and insecure.
In spite of this reputation, back when I ran Windows on a regular basis, I have never unintentionally gotten a virus, and I didn't use any third party antivirus. That was probably 8 years ago.
normal end users are impressively bad at this stuff, though.
@@spagootest2185 not really. I mean i've been pirating shit since i was a child(10ish yo) and haven't got a virus. And i was probably the dumbest kid on the block
@@rajder656 you probably got malware but it just went undetected
Yeah even pirating mainstream shit on TPB you'll at least download a virus once in a while. What's great is the people in TPB comments telling people "just disable AV it's a false positive." Good one 😂👍
Reminds me of getting hacked bc Flash was an insecure but necessary piece of crap.
The drivers for Windows are an absolute nightmare! Even legit driver software companies have advertisement banners with links to malware. Once you have one, try removing them.... They can come back again and again. Removing Linux software packages is so much easier.
There's no such thing as a "driver software company". That's your first fuck up.
@ターツ Well, there isn't. Drivers are provided by the OEM in 100% of cases unless you are using hardware from the dark ages before USB 2.0, and Windows has had a built in driver database in the form of Windows Update since XP SP2. Not one single "driver software company" has been legitimate.
@Rio lol, okay, that might actually work since TempleOS IS the virus.
@@Helladamnleet wait what
They can come back again and again probably because you have downloaded more junkware than one and they keep bringing themselves up, so you didn't remove everything. Also, what the hell are driver software companies? What you mostly need are drivers for Intel, AMD or Nvidia (depending on your hardware) and that's mostly it, and they have their own dedicated websites and apps that notify you of the latest driver updates. You don't need any more drivers than that to download because Windows does that automatically, so if you are visiting some fishy 3rd party websites to download, well that's inevitable you're probably getting scammed hard.
But if you reeeeaaaaally need to download programs from some fucked up website, I recommend you to get something like Unchecky, it disables automatically all optional junkware toolbars and shit you don't need, but get attached to your installer.
Im a simple man. I see Anime+Linux, I click.
I see a simple man, he sees Anime+Linux, I like
I like to interject for a moment, what you call Anime+Linux is GNU+Linux+Anime.
@@sage5578
No, Richard, it's 'Anime+Linux', not 'GNU/Anime/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Anime+Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.
Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.
One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Anime+Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Anime+Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Anime/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Anime+Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?
(An operating system) != (a distribution). Anime+Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Anime+Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Anime+Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Anime+Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
Next, even if we limit the GNU/Anime/Linux title to the GNU-based Anime+Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Anime+Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Anime/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.
You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Anime+Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.
Last, I'd like to point out that we Anime+Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Anime+Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Anime+Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Anime+Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Anime+Linux? Languishing with the HURD?
If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:
Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Anime+Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Anime+Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.
Thanks for listening.
@@majorgamerjay5221 Good luck using just a kernel
install GNU/GNU/HURD
@@mstdve4977 Sir, I don't use just a kernel. What I use is in fact called BusyBox+Anime/Linux.
I switched to linux because package manager is awesome. Setting dev environment is so easy.
That's funny, I switched FROM Linux after several years because the package manager was garbage.
@@Helladamnleet Probably used an ass distro that's based on Debian.
@@carmen_13 or package manager is just garbage. I stuck with it for almost 7 years and it never really got much better
@@Helladamnleet oh and windows have a great package manager... Oops there isn't one. The new "winget" is less of a package manager and more of a automatic installer which any high school student with 6 months of programming knowledge can write.
@@Helladamnleet maybe try Guix
Windows OS is (unfortunately) the default OS. Linux OS is more safe than Windows OS, but also Linux users are more aware about their OS, security issues and privacy issues. For those who don't know Linux, Windows is the default, and only option. Those who know about Linux, also know about Windows, can compare things and obviously choose the best. (Linux)
If possible to buy a PC without Windows, please do so, and stop this monopoly.
We can buy what we want, not what they force us to buy.
No OS is safe from vulnerabilities and exploitation
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true, but there’s some operating systems that are less vulnerable to exploitation than others
Yes but windows is still way more vulnerable. For example while a locked door is still better than an open door both have security flaws like the lock being picked on the locked one or breaking the hinges. Both have vulnerabilities but one is more secure than the other
But some are safer than others ;)
Legacy support is definitely the largest reason, but that just boils down to people being unwilling to rebuild those programs under the newer, more secure architectures. Which is just inevitable because of how time consuming that would be. It is also why many architectures failed in the past, because while they were far more secure, they lacked legacy support.
Honestly though, most of these problems would be solved with virtualization and containerization by the OS. If the OS is primed to strictly enforce software running in an isolated environment, then the majority of malware would just sink without some sort of major exploit. Kinda boggles my mind how VMs accomplish this so well, yet this type of isolation is only just recently starting to gain traction. It should already be the norm.
JuSt UsE TeMpLe Os
All hail Saint Terry the architect! God's chosen programmer!
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IF YOU'RE NEVER CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET YOU CAN NEVER GET VIRUSES.
@@uwuster I- uh- um... you’re not incorrect I guess
@@supernukey419 oh wait msdos had viruses whoops
interesting!
Could you do a video explaining pirated software, good malware (to unlock the software) and how to differentiate them from malicious viruses. And about how virus-makers and anti-virus software makers are sometimes scheming
maybe its the way i use my pc's but i havent seen a virus on one any of them for at least 10 years, other types of malware a few times but mostly iknew it was there because i had to install some suspicious crap.. so basicaly, if you aint looking for it, your good most of the time
Traditional viruses have become niche. Adwares and wanna cry plus ad scams have become the in thing especially when looking for "error solutions and drivers" online
Look for this channel. He does antivirus tests
The PC Security Channel - UA-cam
7:12 they should just add some legacy mode interpreter vm whatever to make the old stuff work in, performance should not be an issue with modern hardware.
If it's easy to smash glass windows irl by throwing an object at it, I can see why a computer OS with the name Windows on it would be so easy to break, hack and infect as well
same with apple products. i can eat an apple or smoke weed out of it, much like how apple is a smoking piece of shit that will be eaten by Tux the fucking penguin.
@@lanpartylandlord6123 A penguin is cool, apple is cool but harder to get than a penguin. While a window just heats your house up
@@alkaupadhyay7650 damn bro what kind of windows do you have in your house
@@sixunity1171 Every window heats your house up because of the greenhouse effect.
You can't throw an object at a penguin (Tux the Linux Penguin) and expect it to shatter lol
Reason #1: NT is old and has terrible permission management
Reason #2: Windows is popular on the desktop
Reason #3: desktop users are generally less tech savvy and more prone to falling for tech-related scams
You haven't met mac users. They are not very savy either
@@fricstix7072 but the Darwin kernel has extremely strong security by default.
I agree with Reason 3. We turn around the pot without being warned on what we click on internet. One mistake could kill a hard drive!
@@zigaudrey or just run your web browser in a VM like a sane person
@@charliekahn4205 I use a computer like a normal user. How could have know this?
that part about the User Account Control (UAC) is true, it is the first thing i turn off after installing windows since i have tons of drivers to install and programs for the sound devices and my G15 Keyboard and G430 head set... certain programs for my PS3 controller, Steam and a few games, the Anti Virus. (used AVG Free for a long time but this year it broke bad, using Comodo Free now.) then i totally forget to re-enable UAC...
i guess what makes windows great is also what makes windows suck, "drivers", it runs everything with tons of customization, the price is security flaws carved in stone. (my Nvidia settings in the control panel in windows is worlds apart on what settings i can access... the Linux one is basically Empty. don't own a AMD but from what i hear, go AMD with Linux.)
Thank you! Finally someone explains it's not about market share.
Been using windows like my whole life and even if it had malware and I didn't notice, never had a problem with my pc 👍
yeah but normally the problem is, your co-workers might, and considering how competent your management is, they might just end up fucking everyone else over.
more users, more targets, more stupid people falling for it. that simple.
Windows still uses an ancient display server with hardware compositing tacked on, just look how bad scaling still is on Windows. Reminds me of Xorg.
Behold, the power of backwards compatibility and legacy support!
You talk about windows having so many third-party drivers for their OS yet any time I go to use Linux outside of server operations I find myself in the situation where I need to dig for hours; even days for third-party drivers made by random people I don't even know just so my devices can function (and those drivers aren't even guaranteed.)
I'd take working drivers that may or may not be hackable from the same corporations that made my device over no way to use my device at all.
idk what ur doing, but when I installed ubuntu on my laptop, it worked pretty fine tho.
It was a newer laptop too, and I kinda expected there not to be any good drivers for it.
Such misinformation in this video; windows applications are subject to multiple levels of both mandatory (privilege based) and discretionary (ACL based) access control -- they most certainly do not just either "have" or "don't have" "admin rights". The issue is that no one configures this and Microsoft has to cater their default settings to making sure most of what people are going to want to run will work. Go into Computer Policy > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Settings > User Rights Assignment and change whatever you want. The "Administrators" group is only the admin group because various settings give that group access.
Windows isn't like Linux in that there are hard coded concepts such as "root" (though it obviously comes with a default administrator account since one kind of needs to exist) -- admins are only admins as a result of entries in access control lists. You could redefine user rights so that the Administrators group has no control and only the account "Bob" has traditional admin rights. Or you could just not put untrusted users in admin roles.
Windows has much more finer grained access control than Linux; with every file, registry key, device, driver, com class, etc. having its own access control list and standard "Security" tab in the properties pages which offers a consistent security configuration experience regardless of the object type. Windows uses much more advanced techniques than simply comparing bitmasks and integer user/group IDs, and provides auditing to absurd levels and security features you would never use outside of the federal government. Every Windows machine has a state of the art Kerberos implementation capable of SSO, smart card auth, biometric auth, and claims/role/group-based access.
Processes in Windows always run in a security context that dictates their privilege level. Kernel-level IPC constructs such as pipes, mutexes, devices, etc. all have ACLs and always perform access control checks.
Modern Windows apps are subject to per-application per-use permissions requests just like any iOS or Android app. The issue is that no one wants to run the sandboxed "app store" version of the products when the native Win32 versions exist unless they're on a mobile device.
Just like how you would want me to RTFM before saying Linux couldn't do something, I suggest you RTFM on Windows because most of the info you cited about Windows' design is either wrong or misinformed. Windows gets viruses so often for the same reason it gets commercial software and games releases so often -- because 95% of the population uses it.
Sorry sir but can you pardon, the driver having seperate security levels. You know, i can just post a photo of a dancing penguin here and the entire youtube will crash. How? Well the image is an png.exe.bat and will force the ssystem for admin rights. Then it will turn the host into a bot, and then do the same. Some guy did this attack in 2010 or something. Why does this happen? Coz your system gave it acess to the eth0 , file explorer, google services and keyboard. All these by only one dancing penguin.
So this has been done, and proves that the link btw drivers get unstable during higher level processes
Mental Outlaw : *Speaks English* Close caption: *Vietnamese*
It probably sounds like it to non-techies.
he's in the trees
3:34 Windows has sandboxing, all modern operating system have W^X write execute exclude, which is the basis of SELinux. Actually Windows NTLM is much more granular than Linux. Which is of no use if you allow everything....
But on Windows Server it really works, if you really lock it down, it can be much, much more secure. But then people would complain.
Digression: is that orange cat in the lower right corner ceiling cat? Sorry, probably not but it reminded me of that hallowed meme.
Well, hallowed for you youngsters. ;"[}
I started my online life on BBS dialups and The Well, the closest ISP to me. Using Gopher to search different university databases seemed magical, but then out came Mosaic and HTML, and it's been a magic carpet ride ever since. May Ceiling cat watch over your endeavors and bless you...cheers.
Version 11 would have been last-chance to fix nt kernel, but micro-softie instead kept the focus on revenue. Though it will still take time, "windows" will eventually die. Users can already harness chrome, android, IOS, Gnu-Linux, BSD etc. for many applications. There will eventually be no need for wasting money on "windows."
My man….the auto generated subtitles for this video are crazy 😝
I really enjoy watching "why windows sucks" videos from my Linux machine
Yes
Or watching "why windows sucks" videos on Windows 10, as I was just waiting for stuff to come in before switching over to Linux.
Currently 2 weeks into using Linux and am loving it, only thing I haven't enjoyed so far is the lack of Linux ports of applications and games I enjoy. I am very happy for wine and proton.
I just loved the way you said "sudo"...
su[per user ]do"
This is why I have myself as a standard user and have an admin user for just stuff like device manager and diskpart. Running as a single admin account makes it too easy for a user to do something stupid and get a virus by taking away the password request and having a simple yes/no dialog
let's also say this. Theoretically, building a new system from scratch, implementing new drivers and everything IS possible. Companies won't do that though, and why? Because it's expensive in terms of time and money, and all they care about is money. So, screw security! Let's just keep this dying body alive for as much as we can with every possible kind of life-support system. What about other users? F**k them.
Companies don't have the slightest interest in "promoting the use of good software" or "the use of standard protocols/file formats". They just want to lose as little money as possible and squeeze what they already have to the bone.
This is the reason FOSS users and promoters usually present a broad range of arguments to support their idea, not only related to the mere technological aspects but also involving ethics, economy and even society.
Gonna be honest: I’ve used an old windows laptop that had windows 8.1 on it. Never got a virus even though I was like 12 at the time. Got a MacBook Air when I was 18, got a virus within 3 days and immediately switched to windows 10 using boot camp. Haven’t got a virus with windows 10 either.
Wasnt there some massive statistic that Apple tried to play down awhil back, where like 40% of Macbooks were found to have the same peice of malware in them, that everyone just got without knowing? I remember some soyboys took that personally for some reason and got mad lmfao.
I mainly tend to use Linux because of emulation and that it's lightweight but also I KNOW what's happening and how to make sure I have CONTROL over all programs.
Also the dnSpy trojan, that was acc kinda well done, not the virus but the idea
Windows does have a big user market share, but everything sensitive to security runs on Linux/Unix. IIRC the US submarines run on RedHat Linux, etc.
I love this thumbnail.
At least they are they tried with was it windows S or something. Shame it was to get share of software purchases etc.
Been building and using computers that run windows for years and I have never once gotten malware even when I was a kid with no internet safety knowledge and downloaded from sketchy websites I didn’t get malware. Also I have malware anxiety, something slightly wrong with my pc? Panic and think it’s malware and I have constant nightmares about getting malware and before I download anything from the internet I do lots of research to make sure it’s safe and even if everyone tells me it’s safe I still may not download it.
Awesome video! Something you should have mentioned is how ever since Windows 98, the registry is where they essentially "dump" all the system critical files and libraries because Microsoft didn't have time to build up a layered system tree if they wanted to meet market demands. Like you said, there is a kernel of truth to the market share argument. Likewise, there there is a kernel of truth to being *beholden* to the market as well.
I alt tabbed back to the video when I heard "check their privelege" and was not disappointed.
I have never just blindly entered my password into a permission prompt on macOS. Yet on windows it's practically instinct to hit ok on UAC. And that's why windows gets so many viruses. People never stop to think about it.
I feel like, in my case as a pure Windows user, it's that I don't have a single clue what admin actually does verses a normal account so I don't any idea what would be a legit case.
you got my like from the pic and the statement "check their privilege"
I've actually tried to set up a similar UAC to Linux in Windows, having a administrator account that I never log into and have a separate non admin account for all usage, and it completely breaks some program installers because they will refuse to run if you aren't logged into an admin account even if you run the installer exe as administrator.
They're used to the privilege and won't let it slide. Digital Karens o.o
I thought everyone was supposed to do it this way lol
Yes, but why not run legacy software in a vm until you can replace it
That's what a containerized Dosbox instance is for.
> people open sketchy links
> people download sketchy things to the host, instead to a VM
So the main problem is that corporations are slow, sluggish machines that can't keep up with the modern word and Windows is designed to accommodate that?
So much for the efficiency of the private sector...
If you think that's bad, you should see what the public sector is running
Well, you have to understand Linux has plenty of glaring vulnerabilities, maybe more than windows. The only reason most of those vulnerabilities don’t really matter is because desktop linux isn’t that common yet and even when it is used for running servers and embedded stuff - that’s some special linux very carefully combed and brushed so it doesn’t contain bugs galore. Recently, there was a worm-like program propagating over local networks in some debian machines. Of course it is just an annoyance that two or three universities had to deal with but that’s about it. If Linux would be as widely spread as Windows, the abundance of distros combined with lots of relatively old software bits used in modern programming combined with the fact that many distros aren’t even properly maintained (look at embedded devices lmao) will result is a storm of malware tumbling over the PC space like it used to happen back in the day.
If we were to have a more systematic way of standardising and developing Linux in such a way that enough resources could be diverted towards long term support and updates, then I would say Linux is definitely the better option.
I took a class in ethical hacking and the first thing they did was have us use linux because it was easier to teach users to hack into linux devices. had to drop the class after getting covid.
Things is, if Linux was as widely spread as Windows as an actual home computing OS, and not just some server/embedded os, there would probably be even less bugs because of all the support it would be getting.
Not me getting an ad for Windows on this video 💀
I haven't run any anti-virus since like 2016 and I haven't gotten a virus since
Just be careful and look up and check what you're downloading and you probably don't need an anti-virus
so in conclusion we dont need a sequel, we need a reboot. maybe something like this windows 10 x thing? dont know how that is made tho.
Well explained! Thanks :)
This is one of the situations when saying linux instead of GNU/linux is unfair, it is not only the kernel.
Make one called “windows 10 secure” where it has all of the security flaws removed. But may lack backwards compatibility.
Yaay! Recommendations
What in the world happened to the closed captions on this video?
notably, while I'm on the fence about how complete of a solution this is, the reason windows needs compatibility so badly in the first place may be because its primarily corporate ran. There is no source code sharing, there are no project forks, none of that shit. So small programs get made by big companies, don't take off too much, then get put on minimal life support. Enough support to make sure they keep their audience, but not enough support to keep them constantly updating. (after all, why update it if the software is already working fine?) By contrast, the Linux community is just a constant stream of new projects and alternatives. So while less backwards compatibility (or even current compatibility for that matter, cough couch EAC cough cough ) is present, the main reason you need that compatibility at all on windows is because chances are you only have one option, so that option better fuckin work. Meanwhile on linux, if you manage to find something you only have one option to pick from for, that's called being a wizard and you need to teach me your skills.
1:33 had me burst out laughing for some reason
The issue with security and windows is a relic from the pre XP/2000 days when there literally was no security of any kind. No file level permissions, no accounts, in fact Win98 I think shipped with C$ share enabled by default, with no password, and remotely accessible. Windows *has* many of these security capabilities now, but even to this day very few 3rd party applications take advantage of it and require massively inflated privileges. *nix has always had some kind of privilege structure, but it was a pretty shitty one. The upside is that all nix applications have to take it into account, and running as root is not the norm, the downside is that we still have to deal with UGO style permissions instead of ACL's just being the universal norm. But I know which of those legacies I would choose lol.
Hearing boomers in the 90's talk about random 20 year olds hacking the pentagon is funny asf, considering how during the 90's, security wasnt even a thing lol.
I would argue that mac and linux are more widely used for most types of software engineering besides system design and hardware stuff. So i wouldn’t classify mac as creative blog posting.
finally some scientific explanations about Microsoft windows being crappy. thanks sir
I have used windows for 10 years + with no antivirus and only the basic windows firewall. Never caught any virus or malware of any form. I have no clue how people can get tricked so often.
Why *not* have an antivirus? Might as well
@@toastynachoos It kills performances
Title: Why Windows Gets Viruses So Often
Actual Title: Why Having A Huge Marketshare OS Gets Viruses So Often
Well I guess but there's lots of other reasons like Linux is open source which makes it waaaaaaay more secure
Microsoft did create a new OS from scratch called Windows 10X but it died. It's because legacy apps were not compatible. This is because it so poorly designed, being monolithic meaning that every component is dependent on some other component, so the Windows app support couldn't be ported over. This is the same reason updates break Windows, changing one thing breaks something else and so on.
I would like a video about apparmor, selinux and how to block programs from accessing network, cameras etc
Those are the easiet topics. Now a days manufacturers making linux machines (god save the dell ceo) have that. The latest dell linux laptop has a hardware option to remove/eject the fucking camera. And this can be done in any machine with some specific tools
The proprietary software itself is malware, not just the malware that is caught by the proprietary software. This is the reason why I have switched to Linux (even Ubuntu is not considered malware, even with the limited telemetry by Canonical in the United Kingdom).
TL:DR, way more popular and overall less experienced users + some other factor
That intro was great.😆
I have a question as a software engineer. Why can't windows develop their OS to behave like a Unix based OS, with a layer running on top to manage legacy software? From there, softwares, programs etc could begin moving forward to develop on the kernel (as they should, this would provide more freedom, speed and efficiency in their softwares also, and likely reduce bugs in general), and as for the legacy applications by the time this rolls out running on a layer wouldn't really be a restriction since the hardware would have developed enough that even a layer managing legacy applications would be able to easily meet the hardware demands.
And of course the natural progression after several releases would be to fizzle out support for the legacy programs on a theoretical windows 13, 14 etc
Why not slowly phase out compatibility over time, new apps drivers follow new security model.
The Linux kernel has so many security issues I'm actually happy it has such a low usage, otherwise would be a lot worse with malware than windows had ever been.
@Peter Andrijeczko i made a bat file yesterday that disables UAC and adds an exception for my payload while disabling UAC notifications. Only problem is it requires a restart. Damn windows lol.
@Peter Andrijeczko plus got the live usb.
The usb is good.
@@boratsagdiyev1586 Try to make a payload with the _NSAKEY backdoor. It will grant you root acvess to files plus you can easily check the data transfer on the device. This can be done by metasploitable. Also you can use their cores for your purposes
@@alkaupadhyay7650 NSAKEY isn’t necessarily a backdoor, it’s a cryptography key. It might be an indicator of a back door, but Microsoft had an explanation for why they needed it. Even tho i dont believe them, the fact is we can never really prove this.
@@boratsagdiyev1586 But what i say it is possible. Or may plausible. But i had this kind of ransomware attack where the ransomware waited for internet and after it's supplementary diet on my internet it just broke my machine.
This was not any ransomware attack. I still remember the name, .djvu .
I have UAC cranked to the top. Even task manager needs to ask if it wants to run
Windows when virus wants admin privileges: ye ur good
Windows when I want to install a program: *STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL*
I appreciate this guy's attentiveness to saying Microsoft Windows every time. Sometimes I forget who makes the OS and need the reminder. XD
Because there is a bug in the peripheral between the keyboard and the chair
Microsoft should just make two versions of Windows legacy support and modern security version.
It’s almost like having vulnerability is a desirable outcome for windows.
account control should be admin only, like some programs need
They could make two separate operating systems? One is secure like linux/macos and one is the original unsecure one.
Why not just make an option to turn this legacy support on/off? It would be difficult for sure but not impossible.
I really like the thumbnails
“Kernel of truth”
Kernel
Hehe
Help I can’t stop laughing
Another major thing is that if you use anything other than Mac or Windows (anything that you have to install yourself), you are a lot more likely to know what you're doing and less likely to be tricked. Even on Windows, I never really had problems with malware.
@Peter Andrijeczko I want to die too much right now to respond to anythign, try again mext times/.
@Peter Andrijeczko shoot me, then yoiu win
Hun, I'm the tech wizard for alot of people, I can name most (if not all) windows related things. I am good with tech, right? I've been attacked and that whole shebang, it happens to windows because it's garbage. Viruses can happen from just existing! IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'RE GOOD AT TECH, IT MATTERS THE QUALITY OF YOUR OS (and anti-virus)
Okay, suddenly realized the meaningless and futility of life again there and really wanted someone to cut my head off, but now I'm as fine as I get. But you people are not fine. Look at what I'm actually saying. I'm saying that anyone that installs another OS should be inherently more competent than people that don't, so they are less likely to be tricked. If you can install and use a Linux or BSD system, you are already above average and probably won't install just anything from anywhere. Basically, as unsafe as Windows is, a Gannooo+Leenooks user would be much safer than the average person even on that. If the average Windows user suddenly started using a Unix system, I'm pretty sure that you could get them to run really destructive scripts with sudo, so the OS wouldn't save them at all.
@Peter Andrijeczko I did actually removed apt ( -_-) and was panicking. But THE LIVE USB IS GOOD. Also props to ubuntu forums for helping me out. And thanks to synaptic and aptitude and dpkg too.
I think they shud rebrand the current windows for corporates, and have a new version of windows made to run on modern hardware and have all these glaring security issues fixed.
soodoo
sudowoodo *shack shack shack*
no it's pronounced "sue dough"
*dough ass*
@A true meme master yes
@@gagemigan a rock hard wood you got
12 years into linux.
I don't even remember what a virus is.
What am I doing right to have never gotten a virus before
Not being an idiot and running strange .exe files that appeared in your download folder lol. Even most web browsers will tell you when you're on a sketchy site.
Who sais you havent got a virus on your computer 🤓
@@paulvorderegger1522 everybody's favorite, non resource hogging, antivirus you can get rid of because its not built into your operating system, windows defender
i swear i downlaod one game i get like 20 viruses i was worried at first but then now that other people experience this make me less stressed.