In message <iInFg.900$sM1.754@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, news.cogeco.ca wrote:
> . It might
> not feel like it, but Windows suffered fewer security
> vulnerabilities
> than
> Linux and Unix during 2005.
>
> Linux and Unix experienced more than three times as many reported
> security
> vulnerabilities than Windows, according to the mighty US Computer
> Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) annual year-end security index.
What were the statistics on the exposure to those vulnerabilities?
If a bug is fixed quickly, that's low exposure. If it takes weeks to fix,
then that's high exposure. I seem to recall a recent fracas over a major
bug that Microsoft took so long to fix, third parties had to come out with
their own interim patches, that Microsoft had to officially "discourage"
people from installing, even though they couldn't offer any better idea.
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