The real problem with Windows is that there is architectual security flaws in the OS itself:
"Security issues: The problem is that .NET allows access to the OS and more specifically memory itself. The article talks also talks about the history of "procedural attachment" and the security issues he talks about all have a common theme they allow access to the OS. Microsoft talks about code signing for security. But the problem is that there is nothing to prevent one from forging a signature. "Section 25 of the C# specification says (I quote verbatim): "C# provides the ability to write unsafe code. In unsafe code it is possible to declare and operate on pointers, to perform conversions between pointers and integral types, to take the address of variables, and so forth. In a sense, writing unsafe code is much like writing C code within a C# program. Copyright Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/executives/perspectives/blind.htm"; ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy R Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Popularity and viruses Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:54:33 -0800 > > Windows apologists have always said that the only reason Linux doesn't > have viruses (or worms, which are the same for the purpose of this > discussion) is because it is not nearly as common as Windows, disregarding > the vastly different security model. > > The traditional response has been to point out that Apache has a much > larger market share than IIS yet IIS has many more security problems, > exploits, viruses, etc. than Apache. > > I just read on /. that there is a virus going around attacking Windows > systems through MySQL. I don't know the details of how this it does it but > apparently it has already found and infected quite a few Windows machines. > You would think Windows servers running MySQL would be pretty darn rare, > and you would be right. This is another excellent example of how > popularity is not necessary for a platform or specific software > combination to be targeted for viruses. > -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
