On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:33:58 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>| Viruses, Trojans and other malware make it onto Windows desktops for
>| a number of reasons familiar to Windows and foreign to Linux:
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>| 1. Windows has only recently evolved from a single-user design to a
>| multi-user model
>| 2. Windows is monolithic, not modular, by design
>| 3. Windows depends too heavily on an RPC model
>| 4. Windows focuses on its familiar graphical desktop interface
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
I don't think any of the above are the problem. The problem was that there
were implementation bugs. Largely buffer overflows.
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>| Astute observers who examine the Netcraft web site URL will note that all
>| 50 servers in the Netcraft uptime list are running a form of BSD, mostly
>| BSD/OS. None of them are running Windows, and none of them are
>| running Linux. The longest uptime in the top 50 is 1,768 consecutive
>| days, or almost 5 years."
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> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-October/msg04658.html
That's long out of date. There are several Windows boxes in the top 50.
Still no Linux boxes, of course.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
Althought the top 5 are Windows based sites (all on the same server, it
looks like), Netcraft is apparently being fooled by a BSD/OS frontline
router or load balancer and probably getting the uptime from that.
However, Numbers 17, 18, 26, and 31 appear to be legitimate Windows boxes.
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