Hostgator India Hosting Launches
Hostgator India has launched hosting operation on Indian servers, and promises the same world class hosting services as its US operations. HostGator is one of the 10 largest hosting companies in the world and HostGator India accounts can now be bought at hostgator.in.
This is a big step as big hosting companies recognize the importance of millions of India based sites and the need to diversify their hosting business into India. We got an email from Hostgator offering a free 7 day test / trial account of their shared HostGator India accounts. You can email them to get a beta testing account. This was possibly sent out to current HostGator clients with a billing address in India only.India Site Owners Advantage
HostGator India will now host your site on servers in India. They have already started an India office at Nashik, Maharashtra which provides 24×7 technical hosting and billing support. This will benefit Indian webmasters and small hosting resellers as their primary working hours will be in India time and you can physically visit the office if needed.
Additionally the latency to the Indian servers from within India and Asia is very low, so you get quick access times leading to quick loading admin/cpanel, faster loading sites with quicker site response time for visitors, without the need for a CDN for your primary Asian traffic.
Hostgator India Plans
The hosting plans and server pricing on hostgator.in are exactly same as US site hostgator.com. However, you will have to pay service tax @ 10.30% extra as required by Indian tax laws.
Right now don’t be surprised to see hosting plans in USD or lack of payment mode by local banks and credit cards, as they will all be integrated soon enough. The wait is over for Hostgator customers in India.
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Facebook Scam: Watch the Osama Shoot down video
Facebook is recently hit by a new scam – Watch the Osama Shoot down video. Most of the Facebook users are aware of such Facebook scams and yet, they click on such links. The recent Osama shoot down incident has attracted attention of major part of internet and Facebookis no option. Scammers have designed a Facebook page which appears to be a link to Osama shoot down video. I recently received a mail saying one of my friends have shared a link on my wall. When I checked the link, I found that it was another Facebook scam of Osama shoot down video.
Facebook Scam- Osama Shoot down video:
If one of your friends falls victim to this Facebook scam, you will see a link like this on your wall post:
Clicking on this Facebook scam link will take you to a Facebook page requesting you to complete a 5 step survey. This survey is nothing but a measure to spread this Facebook scam in all your friends.
If you complete these 5-steps, all your Facebook friends will receive this Facebook spam link on their wall, further spreading the scam. And what more, there is no such Osama shoot down video.
What to do to prevent such Facebook scams???
1. Never ever click on any suspicious link on Facebook. It can be any Facebook Phisher or Facebook scam. Both are meant to harm you.
2. If you have got any update about Facebook scam on your wall post, hit on X button and report it as Spam.
This will prevent you and your friends from falling to such Facebook scams. “Who viewed your profile” was one another recently noticed Facebook scam. There are many such Facebook scams. Make sure that you are not the victim.
Have you faced such Facebook scams before??? Got to share your views about thisOsama shoot down video Facebook scam??? Use our comments section. We are waiting for your views.
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How to – Setup Your Own E-mail Server
What is a Mail Server
You know this. A mail server allows you to receive mails from other mail servers around the internet, provided you create user accounts. It also allows your users to send emails to other mail servers.
You know this. A mail server allows you to receive mails from other mail servers around the internet, provided you create user accounts. It also allows your users to send emails to other mail servers.
For this tutorial, we’ll use a solution that is freeware, and does its job perfect. I’ve been using it for about one year, for my local development in php.
Installation
This one is a little overwhelming, but once you’re done with it, the procedure for configure and get your server running becomes an easy, quick task.
Ill explain the steps carefully. Run the installer and press setup (this is a very simple self-extracting program, that leaves no trace in the registry, so to unistall, you simply remove the created folder in the installation)
This one is a little overwhelming, but once you’re done with it, the procedure for configure and get your server running becomes an easy, quick task.
Ill explain the steps carefully. Run the installer and press setup (this is a very simple self-extracting program, that leaves no trace in the registry, so to unistall, you simply remove the created folder in the installation)
- Press the button New Installation
- Since we wont be using support for Netware Networks, just press the button No Netware Support
- Now select the directory where you want to install Mercury (or simply extract the contents, as explained before). Recomended is the standard windows installation path C:\Program Files\Mercury. Press the button Ok, accept this directory
- Since the Mercury server can be used along with another mail client by the same company, Pegasus Mail (yes, the name of the company and the email client are the same), it asks you if you want to enable the support for such mail client. For reasons beyond the scope of this tutorial, we will not be using Pegasus Mail, so go ahead and press the button No Pegasus Mail integration
- Now it asks you for the directory where it should put the user mailboxes. Just leave it as-is (If you followed the recomended installation path, the it should show C:\Program Files\Mercury\MAIL). Press the button Ok, accept this directory
- Now it will ask you what protocol modules do you want to use. Basically, each one is a component in the form of a plugin, that will give you a given functionality. This is basically the core of the application. You can come back later and pick up the modules you want/require when you are more versed in these matters. For the moment just follow my advice to get this up quickly
Select only the modules Mercury S and MercuryP (the first and second ones in the list).
The first one will sit and listen from outside connections (aka when someone sends you an email to your own server), and everytime he receives one, this is put in the spool directory.
The second simply will allow your POP3 client (outlook, thunderbird) to read email in an account in your server.
Now press the button OK, continue installation - Press the button Install MercuryE. This is the module that will handle delivery of mail to outside servers (aka when you send email from your own mail server to someone in yahoo, google, etc…)
- Now it should ask you for a domain name. This is your domain name in case you have one (or get one free at some of those free dns services around the net), or your own IP. This one can be either 127.0.0.1 -localhost, for testing purposes only- or your actual IP adress assigned by your ISP (e.g 200.197.167.92).
The other field, postmaster, is simply what could be considered as the username in your machine that will act as the postmaster for the server, or what it is the same; the user who will get problem reports. Just use anything for the time being
This is an example figure. We will use your ISP assigned IP, so that you can test this with an online connection, and in case you dont have a domain name. In the postmaster field, you can leave "Admin" which is the default, if you want to.
Now press the button OK, continue installation, and we are ready to move on - In this step, you will be asked about the relay controls. When you become familiar with relaying, you can chose the one that fits your needs. But for the moment, just press the button None
- Now its time to choose the Queue directory. Again, it should by default C:\Program Files\Mercury\QUEUE, then leave it as-is, and press the button OK, continue installation
- We are set. This is -at last
- the final step. So go ahead and press that button Install Mercury/32 to stop the suffering - Now, as a the worthless note ever, press the Exit button to close the installer
Configuration
This is an easy step, compared with the installation process, believe me. So you can just relax, follow my instructions confortably, and you should have your server up and running in no time from this point.
This is an easy step, compared with the installation process, believe me. So you can just relax, follow my instructions confortably, and you should have your server up and running in no time from this point.
So, run the server, which should have a submenu in the start menu, called Mercury for Win32; then pick up the item Mercury Loader
Now you should be presented with a window like this one, which is basically the control center of theapplication through the menus. You can see also 3 windows if you follow the instructions to the letter, each one represents respectively the Core Process that is the main module, and the POP3 and SMTP servers.
So, the next part if to create user accounts. Lets create one for this example. Go to Configuration-> Manage local users…, then press the button Add, and enter the detailsas required, like in the picture
Now press the button Ok and close the other window if you want to. And as you can see, now we have created the mail account billgates@200.197.167.92
Now you should be presented with a window like this one, which is basically the control center of theapplication through the menus. You can see also 3 windows if you follow the instructions to the letter, each one represents respectively the Core Process that is the main module, and the POP3 and SMTP servers.
So, the next part if to create user accounts. Lets create one for this example. Go to Configuration-> Manage local users…, then press the button Add, and enter the detailsas required, like in the picture
Now press the button Ok and close the other window if you want to. And as you can see, now we have created the mail account billgates@200.197.167.92
There are two last things to do.
Go to Configuration->MercuryP POP3 Server, and simply fill in the field IP interface to use, in the case you’re using an IP and not a DNS.
So in the sample case we’ve been following around, this field needs to be filled up
Go to Configuration->MercuryP POP3 Server, and simply fill in the field IP interface to use, in the case you’re using an IP and not a DNS.
So in the sample case we’ve been following around, this field needs to be filled up
Now do the same for Configuration->Mercury SMTP Server; i.e fill the field IP interface to use
Now all its left to do is to configure your mail client to be able to read/send mails using your newly created server and a user account.
Extra Configuration
What? There’s more?. Yep. In this section we will deal with two possible scenarios.
What? There’s more?. Yep. In this section we will deal with two possible scenarios.
Scenario 1: Dynamic IP Address
Ok. What is a dynamic IP Address? Well, all dial-up users like myself, and some broadband ones, have what is known as a dynamic IP address asignation schema, which in plain english means you will have a different IP address every single time you connect to internet. This sucks. I know.
So, as you can see, we went through each of the installation/configuration steps pretending to have an example IP address, but everytime you connect to the internet, changes must be issued in order to update your mail server configuration.
Is there any solution for this? Yes. Check out the Help section at the end of this tutorial. For the time being, lets go over the wonders of Dynamic IP Addresses…
The first thing that needs to be done, is to update the corresponding values in the fields IP interface to use, revised in the last two images above.
So lets pretend your IP address is 200.197.167.92, but next time you connect to the internet your ISP assigns you a new one: 200.197.167.73
Ok. What is a dynamic IP Address? Well, all dial-up users like myself, and some broadband ones, have what is known as a dynamic IP address asignation schema, which in plain english means you will have a different IP address every single time you connect to internet. This sucks. I know.
So, as you can see, we went through each of the installation/configuration steps pretending to have an example IP address, but everytime you connect to the internet, changes must be issued in order to update your mail server configuration.
Is there any solution for this? Yes. Check out the Help section at the end of this tutorial. For the time being, lets go over the wonders of Dynamic IP Addresses…
The first thing that needs to be done, is to update the corresponding values in the fields IP interface to use, revised in the last two images above.
So lets pretend your IP address is 200.197.167.92, but next time you connect to the internet your ISP assigns you a new one: 200.197.167.73
The next changes are located at Configuration->Mercury core module….
First one is on the tab General. Just change the field Internet name for this system accordingly
First one is on the tab General. Just change the field Internet name for this system accordingly
Now go to the tab Local Domains, select the second item, press the button Change entry, and enter the new value
Thats it. This needs to be done every single time you connect to the internet. Painfull I know
Scenario 2: Domain Name
So, you are a lucky one, and own a domain name. Domain names are basically ways for us human beings to remember internet directions easily. If I told you go to 64.233.187.99 that wouldnt make much sense isnt it? So, go ahead and type that in your browser URL bar. What show up in the screen? Thats right, our beloved google. Which means that IP address is google address, and www.google.com is simply google’s domain name.
Again, if you dont own a domain name and would like to have one, read the help section at the end.
So, you are a lucky one, and own a domain name. Domain names are basically ways for us human beings to remember internet directions easily. If I told you go to 64.233.187.99 that wouldnt make much sense isnt it? So, go ahead and type that in your browser URL bar. What show up in the screen? Thats right, our beloved google. Which means that IP address is google address, and www.google.com is simply google’s domain name.
Again, if you dont own a domain name and would like to have one, read the help section at the end.
Ok, so you have your own domain name, do you have to make all the "difficult" configuration stuff in the last subsection? Of course not. You wont have to change anything at all once you have configured the basics of your mail server.
Since it easier to explain how to install the mail server when you have a domain name, instead of showing you the changes required to use a domain name rather than an IP, go ahead and delete the folder C:\Program Files\Mercury, in case you already installed mercury and followed the instructions for using an IP
No worries here, all aforementioned installation steps apply, with some minor differences. We will be using the example domain name www.billyboy.com
Since it easier to explain how to install the mail server when you have a domain name, instead of showing you the changes required to use a domain name rather than an IP, go ahead and delete the folder C:\Program Files\Mercury, in case you already installed mercury and followed the instructions for using an IP
No worries here, all aforementioned installation steps apply, with some minor differences. We will be using the example domain name www.billyboy.com
Step 8: Put your own domain name in the adecuate field
So the first two changes look like this
So the first two changes look like this
There is though one little thing to change when using a domain name. In order for the outside delivery to work, we need to add a valid dns lookup server (i.e so that you wont get an unresolved error for gmail.com, hotmail.com, etc…). So, we fill in the field Identify Myself As: in Configuration->MercuryE SMTP Client
2.1 Outlook (Mail Client)
Since Outlook is very popular, and is bundled in M$ products, such as Office, Ill explain the configuration. Its really simple, so hopefully there’s no much to explain.
Since Outlook is very popular, and is bundled in M$ products, such as Office, Ill explain the configuration. Its really simple, so hopefully there’s no much to explain.
Thats it. Basically, your account properties should look like that, in the case you’re using a domain name, otherwise just fill in the IP
We’re done here. Now you should be able to send/receive emails (thanks to the POP3 module) through your own server in outlook.
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What makes Gmail better than its competitors
As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time wading through e-mails, finding the best e-mail service is paramount in my life.Realizing that, I've done my fair share of shuffling from one e-mail program to the next--trying to find the best service that not only offers speed and stability, but also reliability and spam control. And although e-mail services are getting better, it's abundantly clear that few offer the kind of experience I'm really looking for in an e-mail client. But Google's Gmail app is different. It's better than its competition on a number of levels and provides the kind of e-mail experience that's simply unrivaled online.
Spam, Spam, Spam
I've used practically every e-mail service on the Web and I can say, without a doubt, that Gmail blocks the most spam. To those who open a new account, spam may not be a serious concern. Your spam folder will likely remain empty for a while until your new e-mail address makes its way into the wild. But for my e-mail address, which is widely available and easily attainable, spam is a constant headache.On services like Yahoo Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, and AOL Mail, the spam blocker tried but failed on too many occasions. In fact, dealing with spam in my already bloated in-box was a daily occurrence that got worse as more messages piled up. But Gmail is different. Right now, I have thousands of messages sitting in my spam folder that never made their way to my in-box. Even better, I can say with all honesty that I only see about two or three spam messages per day in my in-box--not perfect, but much better than anything the competition is offering.
Google Apps
Maybe it's not fair to compare e-mail clients on the basis of additional apps, but I'll do it anyway. After all, Google is competing with the likes of Yahoo and AOL--two major Web companies--and I don't see why these two can't release apps that provide an even greater value proposition to users.
There's something so appealing about receiving an e-mail from someone who attached a Word document or Excel spreadsheet and being given the option to open that attachment in Google Docs. And being able to switch to Google Calendar and Reader from Gmail cuts down on time spent on managing my day. Maybe that functionality appeals to me because I prefer using apps like Google Calendar and Reader to keep me organized and "in the know", but I honestly can't see myself using another e-mail client knowing how invested I am in other Google apps. Suffice to say that my affinity for Gmail stretches beyond e-mail.
Filters
Gmail's filter feature is the best in the business. Period. Unlike its competitors, which try to provide a filter tool that simply re-routes incoming messages, Gmail delivers a power user's dream. In a matter of seconds, you can create a filter that searches through all incoming mail looking for specific people or keywords and once found, immediately categorizes it into a specific folder, forwards it on to someone else, or moves it to the trash, to name just a few functions.
With the help of Filters, using Gmail becomes an even more rewarding experience. Gone are the days of spending big chunks of your time attempting to find just one e-mail that's lost in a collection of thousands. Other e-mail services try desperately to provide the same kind of filter features, but they fall flat. In my experience, messages are either missed, the filter has performs the wrong function, or simply not ends up not working. In fact, Yahoo Mail's filter feature works only in its Classic e-mail app and according to the company, won't be available in the new interface until it's done "tweaking the Yahoo! Mail Filters option." Yikes.Annoying ads
Anyone who has used Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, or Windows Live Hotmail knows all too well that the annoying ads are in abundance. But when you load up Gmail, it's an entirely different story.
Sure, there are ads on Gmail, but unlike the other services, they're not intrusive in any way. I never notice them when I'm working with the program, but when I load up Yahoo Mail or try out Hotmail, I'm inundated with ugly display ads that reduce the service's screen real estate and generally take away from the experience. Granted, ads don't have any impact on the viability of an e-mail service, but doesn't it stand to reason that if you're not forced to look at blinking ads while working in your e-mail, you'll be a happier user?
I certainly think so.
Conversation Displays
I realize there are many people out there who enjoy the "classic" style of displaying e-mails based on their arrival, but I'm not one of them. I like that Gmail groups an entire e-mail conversation into one and forgoes the use of individual strands. The latter strikes me as outdated and useless today in a world of constant e-mail communication.
That said, I realize my opinion isn't the most popular. Yahoo and AOL Mail are more popular than Gmail and each employs the "old" display style, suggesting that users prefer that over Gmail's style. But I think that's more of a reaction to what users know than to what they would like. In fact, I'm willing to bet that if those people were forced to use Gmail for a week, the vast majority would dump Yahoo or AOL in favor of Google's client as soon as a flurry of e-mails between two parties broke out and they needed to go back to find a particular message. Finding that message couldn't be easier in Gmail.
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Settling Differences
Any Linux geek would tell you Linux thrashes Windows in more ways than one. But does it? And why? What makes a system better than another? At this stage, are they even different at all?If there were no Windows vs. Linux battles, the geek life would have been notably duller. Technology forums would inevitably get boring, and life would generally never be the same. The most contentious issue, of course, is security—Windows is notorious for not having much in that department. However, Vista is loaded with a bunch of new security measures, and claims to be able to thwart malicious software better. What makes an operating system more secure? The way it’s built, of course. And that is the question we’re asking. But first, some myth-busting.
Popularity Contest
The favourite theory to explain the low number of viruses (or Trojans, or other such malicious code, for that matter) that exist for Linux is that it’s not popular enough—they say that if you turned the tables and made Linux the world’s most used OS, you’d find just as many malicious programs for it as you do for Windows now.
There is some logic to both the statements, but here’s what the Linux community usually comes back with: nearly half of the world’s Web sites run on Apache, either on Linux or a BSD. Since this is obviously the most popular platform, there’s plenty of incentive for hackers to spend their time taking it down—and yet, you don’t see Apache’s vulnerabilities in the news as much as you see those of Microsoft’s IIS. Not that the hackers aren’t trying to take down Apache servers— they’re just not having as much success with it as they are with IIS servers.
All this is very leading, but it really doesn’t say anything. IIS servers are often taken down by exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows (an unfortunate side-effect of Windows’ integration with its software; more on this later), and not necessarily in IIS itself. Secondly, while the Netcraft list of sites with the longest uptime is dominated by Apache servers, there’s no information on the actual availability of the servers—they could have been under a DDoS attack for half that uptime, but as long as they haven’t rebooted, they’re on the list.
Bottom line: there is no bottom line. For every (seemingly) logical statement, there exists an equally logical retort. We could write the arguments and counter-arguments for twenty pages if we felt like it, and you still won’t walk away with a definite conclusion. Let’s just move on.
Your OS And You
The biggest security breaches occur when malware is allowed to run with on your system with elevated privileges—which means that it has access to critical programs and data that only your system’s kernel should have. Once it’s reached that level, your PC becomes its humble servant, and can be brought down at the slightest whim. Who gives this malware its privileges? Well, you do.
With Windows XP, the person who installs the operating system becomes the Administrator, so if you’re the only one using your PC, you’ve got the privileges to wreak all sorts of havoc, should you choose to. Consequently, any application you install and run is also accorded the same royal treatment, no questions asked. Now add to that the fact that Windows’ system services run under a user account called SYSTEM (you can check this out in the Task Manager)— the most powerful account on your system, with access to everything critical—and that the first processes that malicious programs hijack are system services. You’ll be drawing pretty accurate conclusions by now...
Vista, thankfully, changes this. The user who installs Vista is still part of the Administrators group, but even this administrator runs with regular, limited privileges. When administrative tasks—including installing new programs—need performing, User Account Control (UAC) kicks in, telling you that you need to give the task a go-ahead before it, well, goes ahead. If you read the UAC prompt and don’t know the program it’s warning you about, you can prevent it from running. But what if you’ve blindly allowed the task to continue?
Unlike XP, malware has little or nothing to gain from hijacking a system service in Vista— instead of giving services unlimited rights like before, Vista runs them with low privileges, giving them access only to critical files and Registry entries that they need; each service is given a Security ID (SID), which it uses to request permission to these objects. Consider this scenario in XP: a virus has hijacked your system’s innocuous Plug-and-Play service and has acquired its privileges. One of the first things viruses do is disable the anti-virus so they can continue their reign of terror uninterrupted. Since the virus can now do anything to your system, it’ll be allowed to kill the anti-virus service, corrupt the virus definitions, modify its Registry entries and much more. In Vista, if this same virus manages to attack the service, all damage is restricted to the service and its domain—you won’t necessarily be happy, but you won’t be feeling silly, either.
Windows Vista basically accomplishes what Linux has been doing for a long time—ensure that regular users don’t have access to critical operating system files and services; they don’t even have access to files owned by each other! The all-powerful root account is never used, and in Ubuntu, it’s actually disabled: you’re expected to use the “sudo” command (or gksu for GNOME applications) and enter your password to execute commands that affect the system in general. Unless you deliberately use these commands to run a suspicious executable, the worst it can do is affect the files you have access to. Even if, for whatever inexplicable reason, you do decide to run a malicious script with sudo, your services are still safe... Services in Linux run as separate users, with access only to files that they own; more often than not, they don’t even have the rights to use the terminal, so they can’t run commands or start other services. This is where the multi-user approach comes handy again— since users are isolated from each other, services can’t access the data used by other services. The Apache server, for instance, runs as a user called www-data, which only has access to the Web pages it serves. If a hacker exploits an Apache vulnerability to get into the www-data user account, he can’t really do much to the other services, because www-data doesn’t own those files. He can, however, mess with Web pages, so while this isn’t a doomsday scenario, it’s certainly not ideal.
You’ve probably noticed the parallels between the two operating systems by now—for your use at home, both systems are quite secure. Unfortunately, they both have one critical flaw: PEBKAC—Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair. No operating system can plan for human ignorance—Vista, unfortunately, allows you to disable UAC (and it’s annoying enough for you to want to), and even then, it can’t guard against people who click OK without realising what they’re doing. Linux developers do all they can to ensure that you never feel the need to use the root account, but there’s always the daredevil who can’t resist. If you keep your head on your shoulders and read what’s on your screen, your PC will be as secure as you want it to be.
True, there are more people working on Windows viruses than Linux, but popularity isn’t all that makes Windows popular with the hacker community...
Package Deal
Unfortunately, the thing we love about Windows is also its undoing. Windows is designed as a single unit, so a lot of features (or modules, depending on what you’re looking at) are integrated into the core of the system, even though they don’t need to—IE and Outlook Express immediately spring to mind. Remember the Windows 98 + IE4 combination, when you couldn’t tell where the OS ended and the browser began?
The upside to this approach is a smooth, hassle-free user experience—all these programs get a little extra love from the OS kernel, so they’ll inevitably perform better than thirdparty programs. The downside—which we see often enough—is that any vulnerability in these programs can potentially bring down the entire system. This is why you hear of vulnerabilities in IE and Office letting hackers gain control over Windows PCs. In fact, in Windows XP, even the graphics engine that draws windows on your screen runs in this privileged space, so if your graphics freeze, your only option is to reset your system.
Linux, on the other hand, is designed to be modular. Only the most essential components of the operating system are integrated into its core—the rest are loaded only when needed, and don’t have access to critical system files. A vulnerability in Apache, for example, stays in Apache. The Linux we’re talking about here is the core OS, and not the Desktop Environments, mind you. GNOME and KDE may not integrate with the Linux kernel, but within themselves, they are quite integrated. The disadvantage is the same as for Windows—if one component of GNOME fails, the Desktop Environment fails, taking all the applications running in it down. However, the OS kernel isn’t affected, so all you have to do is a simple [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Backspace], which ends your GNOME / KDE session and lets you log in to your system again.
This is where Linux (and UNIX, and the BSDs) clearly take the lead in terms of security. It may not feel as nice as Windows while you’re using it, but it won’t let something silly like a flaw in a text editor take it down, either.
Endgame
So really, which is better? Let’s look at it step by step, starting with the potential for malicious software to enter your PC. Both systems are on equal footing here—malicious software getting into your PC is usually your fault (assuming you don’t have security software installed). Step two: malicious software does get into your PC; what is the scope of the damage it can do? Again, with both Linux and Vista, damage caused by malware is restricted to the service it exploits, and the files that the service can access. So far, so good. Finally, step three: what happens when the malware goes about its dirty deed? With Vista, if a critical service—like the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service—is compromised, all manners of chaos may ensue. Every application under Windows needs to use RPC, so you’re sunk without it. With Linux, services aren’t as tightly integrated with the OS, so while your Linux PC can be crippled—some applications won’t run, you may not have network access and so on—the kernel is still safe, which means that with a little root wizardry, it can be brought back to life again.
Bottom line: for daily desktop use, both systems are equally secure—but if things do go wrong, they go more wrong with Windows.
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