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I'm only ranting because I might want to use Ubuntu or..
similar distro and I need to know about the security. It helps to be able to tell customers they can secure their system as well or better than Windows if that is important to them..

I like the forced loggon at boot up because I have had crackers blow past my PXE disable to start my machine when I am not there. They did this thru a totaly stealthed Netgear firewall so I must have caught a bot bug somehow.

They got as far as enabling the unused local machine Administrator account to auto-logon so they could do their dirty work when I wasn't watching. Needless to say I wiped the drive and did a clean reinstall and trashed all previous passwords after that!

I have learned to be eternally paranoid since!
Posted by JCitizen
7th Nov 2007