I smell religious war. Solarwind, you started it. Your first post today
in this thread could easily have been composed without bashing
Microsoft.

Bob


On Wed, Oct 3, 2012, at 05:23 PM, V G wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > You do not need to tell me security issues, I work on this field for 20=
+
> > years (on the good side before you ask me :-) ).
> >
> > However, saying that something is more secure just because it was writt=
en
> > by someone else is wrong -- sorry to say that, but that's the naked tru=
th.
> > Our ThreatSeeker Network for example catches hunders of thousands of
> > compromised websites every day, and I can't even remember if any of the=
m
> > was running on a customized web server. You need a different approach f=
or
> > security measurements than just trust on a code based solely on who wri=
tten
> > it or the size of the customer base.
> >
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> I wonder what versions of server software is being used. There will
> always
> be security vulnerabilities. The key is that they're found and patched
> quickly. That's the whole point of using something like Apache. There are
> thousands of people who are working on it and constantly fixing bugs and
> vulnerabilities. Microsoft, on the other hand, is not known for good
> practices such as this. Am I wrong?
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> Oh, and btw2: Linux has just as many or even more vulnerabilities then
> > Microsoft has, which may or may not be targeted by the cyber criminals.=
 On
> > the server-wise Linux is probably more on the highlight for the attacke=
rs
> > as that is used most for hosting. On mobile platform you are in a much
> > higher danger if you use Android (which is technically a Linux system),=
 or
> > a custom OS like BlackBerry or Symbian, than you had a Windows CE or
> > Windows Mobile device. In the other hand on the desktop field Microsoft
> > Windows is definitely under the siege. Having said that, Microsoft now =
has
> > a much better program on monitoring and patching the code as well as
> > consulting with the security experts on this field than any of the
> > Linux distribution or the kernel guys does. I am saying all of these ev=
en
> > though I am a Linux/Unix and Mac fan.
> >
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> "Having said that, Microsoft now has
> a much better program on monitoring and patching the code as well as
> consulting with the security experts on this field than any of the
> Linux distribution or the kernel guys does."
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> Haha. Good one. Somehow I highly doubt anything that comes out of
> Microsoft
> is of better quality (including security) than something from the OpenBSD
> distribution. The majority of the web agrees. Much Linux server software
> comes from the OpenBSD codebase, by the way.

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