I don't think the answer would be yes... 60+ percent of the worlds web servers are running the open source GPL apache..
It gets far far less bug hits then M$'s IIS. Thats just one example.. sendmail used to be a pig for security issues.. now that its matured alot, there are alot less issues.. and the majority of the net runs sendmail. its not as secure as Postfix or Qmail. (and probably Exim) but it hasn't had all that many problems of late. rgds frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alastair Scott Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2002 4:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 15:42, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Alastair: > Wait a couple of days, and you'll get your 20. > -- cmg I was internally debating this timescale and thought it was probably right. Although nothing has turned up relating to IE specifically there've been 4 alerts on the [bugtraq] list today concerning Microsoft products. Including this (at face value) absolutely horrendous one: "Windows NT/2000/XP do not check execution rights correctly before allowing 16-bit executables to load. This makes it possible to load and execute 16-bit files without execute permission. For example, the command line COMMAND /c 16BitApp.exe will always run the application 16BitApp.exe regardless of execute permission." So someone could bring in CRASH.EXE on a floppy disk and subvert access control lists and all the other expensive-consultant-set-up Windows paraphernalia :) Suppose Linux was: - occupying 95% of the market; - widely disliked. Would such elementary holes be opened up with the same regularity as is happening with Microsoft products? I have the uneasy feeling that the answer would be "yes". Alastair
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