Microsoft is banking on enhancements to what it has dubbed the fundamentals to entice enterprises to upgrade to the next version of Windows, known as Vista. The company will use upcoming industry shows to sing the praises of improvements to the Windows networking stack and secure networking techniques such as server and domain isolation to sell both Vista and Longhorn, the planned update to Windows Server.
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Member since:"Statistically Linux is not the most cracked into OS. It's still Windows 
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Not at all. Windows is certainly subject to more annoying worms and such that launch DOS attacks and that kind of thing. But when it comes to downright hacking: ie: gaining root / administrator privileges on a box, Linux is cracked more often than Windows.
Member since:Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is simply not true.
I know there was some report some time back by some shady selfapointed securtiy specialist that made this claim without even disclosing what data their findings were based on.
But this certainly wasn't a report one could take seriously unless one is only interested in trolling...
Oh, wait...
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I would like to see those statistics. Any links?
Could be interesting to see how they have defined the different categories.
Have they taken into consideration that worms have unrestricted access on most Windows boxes because most people are running with admin-privileges?
Cracking a Windows box to get administrator privileges is so easy people don't want to believe it.
Cracking a Linux box is a lot more difficult. But perhaps the statistics were created on basis of Linspire?
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Member since:Not at all. Windows is certainly subject to more annoying worms and such that launch DOS attacks and that kind of thing. But when it comes to downright hacking: ie: gaining root / administrator privileges on a box, Linux is cracked more often than Windows.
Ah...because it doesn't require any 'leet skills' to break into a Windows machine?
Why try and make a whore out of a smart prude, if there are plenty of dumb ones around to play with already?
Seriously, do you want to play a game of symantecs, or are you really that out of touch?
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2005-10-02
Except that your statements are false.
Statistically Linux is not the most cracked into OS. It's still Windows