On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:04:11 -0400 yankl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Before flaming me read my signature. > > Sorry to spoil that bashing of the writer, but he makes a valid point. No he doesn't. > It is not an OS, it is user who use it. 99.9999% of windblows viruses > are based on the social engineering in addition to software flow. No flame, but that's not the point of the article. The author is "rebutting" another article which points out that Windows is quite clearly several times more vulnerable to trivial exploits. No one is claiming anything is impregnable. Nevertheless, you are incorrect. Given identical users, sit them down in front of a Windows box and a *nix box, the Windows box will be compromised sooner, statistically speaking. It is not just the user, it is the design of the OS. And 99% of Windows viruses have very little if anything to do with social engineering. They require no action on the part of the user to propagate. Merely loading a properly coded web page or running a webserver is exploitable, requiring no "social engineering". If you want to take me up on that bet, lemme know, hell I'll give you 20 to 1 odds on the Windows box ;-) It's really very simple people. Linux is designed secure from the ground up, Windows is not. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.
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