"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> I would expect the uptime of any Windows box to be greater
> than 2 days. Unless, of course, it is a zombie. There are
> over 5 million of these 'in the wild', according to
> Microsoft. Cyberspace is doomed.
It might
not feel like it, but Windows suffered fewer security vulnerabilities
than
Linux and Unix during 2005.
Linux and Unix experienced more than three times as many reported
security
vulnerabilities than Windows, according to the mighty US Computer
Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) annual year-end security index.
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CERT found more than 500 multiple vendor vulnerabilities in Linux and
Unix
spanning old favorites such as denial of service and buffer overflows,
while CERT recorded 88 Windows-specific holes and 44 in Internet
Explorer
(IE). For a complete list of vulnerabilities, you can visit the CERT
site
here.
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