__/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Friday 10 March 2006 23:58 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> A new study seems to concur with the famous Schneier article:
>>
>> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/01/linux_security.html
>>
>> The following was published yesterday, as part of Symantec's study:
>>
>> ,----[ Snipptets ]
>> | A test has revealed that a Linux server is far less likely to be
>> | compromised. In fact, unpatched Red Hat and SuSE servers were not
>> | breached at all during a six-week trial, while the equivalent Windows
>> | systems were compromised within hours.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | The report also found that the Firefox browser had fewer than Microsoft
>> | Internet Explorer, due to a revision in the way Symantec counts bugs;
>> | and that unpatched versions of Windows last just over an hour on the
>> | Internet before being compromised, among other findings.
>> `----
>>
>> Article URL: http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5535
>
> The linux crowd, in the back, stand and cheer.... All you had to do was ask
> us...
Can we spend 10 million dollars placing this study in page 1 of Google for
the phrase 'windows'? (hint: search for 'linux' in Google)
The Mozilla foundation made 73 million dollars from Google endorsements, so
maybe *they* could help fighting the FUD campaigns. It is otherwise down to
Novell /et al./
Roy
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