Marie SWE wrote: ↑2022-03-19 22:38If you take a Windows 2000 computer with a configured software firewall, turn it on and no one uses it.. then the computer is secure.
This is too vague a statement. You would need a modern, secure firewall capable of running on Windows 2000 (problem!?) and configured to block all. You may as well have said a "Windows 2000 computer is secure if you don't connect it to the LAN/WAN".
Marie SWE wrote: ↑2022-03-19 22:38If you take the latest version of any linux distro .. turn it on and a user installs a virus/trojan/ransomware.. then the computer is compromised.
This is too obvious to really make any useful point or comparison.
Marie SWE wrote: ↑2022-03-19 22:38I only trust systems that I have a 100% understanding of how it works
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So at present time, I can make a win7(EOL) computer more secured then my Debian and LMDE computers. Why? is it because win7 is more secure?
absolutely not.
It is just because I know windows systems and have 30+years experience of microsoft OS and a sysadmin education
(14years old)...
You're implying that an EoL Windows 7 installation is more secure than a modern Linux distribution, on account of you having "100% understanding of how it works". That is easily disproven. Unless you happen to have the source code to hand and can demonstrate a full and thorough understanding? I have used Windows, at home and professionally, since the days of Windows 3.1 and MSDOS before that, and I certainly wouldn't even claim a 50% understanding of how it works, let alone 100%.
Windows is a "black box", designed and engineered in fact to limit your understanding of it and to place you in the lap of a multi billion $ corporation and the parasitic companies and "professionals" it certifies to utilise the tangle of administrative tools it develops for the purpose along with the mess of 3rd party proprietary crap one often has no choice but to use to carry out simple tasks which just work out of the box on a 'BSD or Linux system.
Professionally, I have to use powershell, write powershell scripts, batch files, occasionally vbs scripts and I can assure you that I "understand" only as much as I need to, partially by choice, partially because it's a horribly complex rats nest and clusterf***.