Not true at all. In fact, from experience, the Linux OS is much more full of holes than Windows. It appears most hate Microsoft so thier OS gets the most virus and hackers. All I can say is we independently did a test with Linux and Windows we isntalled a default OS and put it on the net without a firewall. Windows was never hacked, but Linux was hacked in a day and they took root access to the point where we could not get back in.
That is incorrect and counter to recent tests that show that an unpatched Windows system will survive less than an hour whereas an unpatched Linux system will generally survive for 3 months. Once "hacked", the level of ownership is irrelevant as any standard rootkit will "own" the box to the level you describe with a single installation command.
It isn't a case of "hate". The sheer volume of unpatched Windows systems running on wide open broadband connections makes for an extremely attractive-- lucrative, even-- set of systems to take over for the purposes of spamming and distributed denial of service attacks.
See: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/01/linux_security.html
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