OT: Linux most breached OS

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>In the relative spacial/temporal region of
>Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:12:56AM -0500, John Esak achieved the spontaneous
>generation of the following:
>> >
>> > Press tab to move to that panel, move down to 'install and remove
>> > software', and the next menu move to 'search' type in hylafax,
>> > a moment later it is highlighted, and you can choose to install it
>> > right then and there.
>> >
>> > If anyone with reasonable intelligence can't handle that they
>> > shouldn't be adding software to the system.
>> >
>> 
>> Yes, sounds easy... not as easy as loading a CD or a downloaded file and
>> pressing Next, Next, Next, Finish... but pretty good.  However, I was asking
>
>It's really painless.  BTW, Bill forgot that you should -then- immediately
>check with YaST Online Update to make sure that you get any patches to the
>original that may have been released.

That's well and good on Linux, particularly SuSE and others that
have *ALL* incoming internet services turned off until the admin
intentionally activates them.

Windows, on the other hand, requires one use Internet Exploder to
get the on-line updates, the same browser that CERT and others
have said is too dangerous to use.  I've seen many posts by very
knowledgeable people who have said that the average Windows box
will be owned long before the patches can be applied.

When I put up a new Internet connection, the probes start showing
up virtually immediately.  An insecure Windows box will be under
attack long before one can download and install Microsoft's
patches.

Bill
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