In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:56:46 +0100
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> Windows Bugs Still Not Patched
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> ,----[ Excerpt ]
> | PC World - Two months after hacker HD Moore publicly disclosed 22 bugs,
> | only two have been fixed.
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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060929/tc_pcworld/127336
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> About a week ago Microsoft received a price for excellence in security or for
> being trustworthy (I can't recall exactly). It was the US government that
> granted it, AFAICR.
Ah, you saw that too, eh? :-)
Lovely, of course, the way our goverment shows such
competence in the prosecution of a fair number of things --
handing out awards being among them, apparently. A pity
Senator Proxmire is no longer among us.
I'll give Windows brownie points for trying, though, and an
interesting note (if one believes it): the number of viruses
between Windows and Linux (400+-1) is, apparently, the same
as the number of users ratio. Of course that's a bit off
since last I looked Linux desktop users are about 3% to over
10%, not 0.25%, as this might suggest.
--
#191, ewill3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Linux makes one use one's mind.
Windows just messes with one's head.
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