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From: "Robert B." <piclist@NERDULATOR.NET>
Subject: Re: [OT:] Windows/Linux security


> If windows is roughly equivalent in security to linux, then why are there
so
> few viruses that break down *nix servers?

Server attacks are relatively rare anyway.  There are a lot more desktops
out there to atttack, so it's a much more appealing target.  And virtually
all of the desktops are Windows.

However, one place where there is a significant difference is in web
servers.  Until about a year ago, the majority of the web servers were
Apache, with most of the rest being IIS.  (IIS has changed it's name a
couple times in the past few years, but a rose by any other name....)  About
a year or two ago, IIS passed Apache in numbers, but they are still roughly
equivalent.

However, for quite a while almost every day brought a new IIS vulnerability,
while Apache went literally YEARS between exploits.  Recently the Apache
exploits have picked up some, and the IIS exploits have slowed, but this is
one area where the difference is still dramatic.

--McD

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