Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Apr 2006 18:53 UTC
In a rare discussion on the severity of the Windows malware scourge, a Microsoft security official said businesses should consider investing in an automated process to wipe hard drives and reinstall operating systems as a practical way to recover from malware infestation. "When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit."
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2005-11-05
Are you honestly that ignorant of the facts, or are you just trolling? <5% desktops is an irrelevant figure as there are quite a bit of Linux servers on the internet. It's funny how most of the exploits you see are for crappy php software or web applications instead of Apache. Can the same be said for IIS?
I listed a number of reasons *why* linux is more secure. The only comparable feature XP has is that it uses the NX (No eXecute) bit on newer cpus. I listed 6 reasons why linux is more secure and XP only has one of those. I didn't get into default users being administrators OR firewalls whatsoever so that could be a few more. Linux is more secure because security was built-in from the start, not bolted on as an afterfact. Linux spawns from the ideas of Unix/minix with full multiuser, security, and networking. Windows spawns from DOS, single user, no security, and (initially) no networking.
Linux is more secure because it is built on a more solid foundation.
Maybe *you* should think a lil bit more please?