James Mohr wrote:
I cannot figure out how the article or Aberdeen came up with these exact numbers, no matter how you look at it. However, check out: http://cooper.stevenson.name/aberdeen.html. This addresses the issue of "absolute" numbers and puts the shoe on the other foot.
That was my problem as well. Thank you for the URL! Saves me the time from doing the same.
An obviously key issue here. You can bet that unless MS has to, it will never report a bug that it discovers itself. It will just silently "fix" it in the next service pack.
As many vendors tend to. In a competitive environment, you don't want to spread bad press about yourself. Of course, reporting issues to CERT for positive press is not unknown from any vendor. "Gee, we found a problem and we just happen to already have a fix!" ;-)
Obvious, for two reasons. One we Linux-folks typically have more technical skill than the average Windows user. Second, we have the source code.
This is generally true, but it is changing. Unfortunately.
Careful. I would rather have 10 different bugs that crash a user's browser than a single virus that propogates via MS Outlook. Numerically fewer is not always better.
So true! In my years of IT work, viruses cause more effort, headache and lost time/resources then all of the security breaches I've had to deal with, either directly, or peripherally. (3 in 16 years. Only 1 was my problem, and it was shut down before the intrusion proceeded further. The other 2 I had to take defense actions when corporate HQ was breached.) I've admined both UNIX/Linux/*BSD and Windows 3.1/NT/2K/XP. For security, I'll take the UNIX side. For certain functionality, I can see some Windows applications, but it is protected by UNIX or variant.
That's the issue: What causes you and company the most problems?
Exactly my point!
Good enough to know that for security relevant issues, we don't rely on Microsoft products.
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