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Is Your OS Tough Enough?

Posted by timothy on from the mepis-seems-to-do-alright dept.

LE UI Guy writes "A Denver Post article examines the Internet 'horrors' Windows, Mac and Linux users face simply being connected to the Internet with only an out-of-box configuration. Over the course of a single week the machines were scanned 46,255 times. The test didn't look into additional security threats caused by surfing the web or reading e-mail, just the connection itself."

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  1. redhat 9 super secure? by MasterB(G)ates · · Score: 0, Troll

    rh9 not receiving any attacks is curious. It kinda insinuates rh9 is the most secure when any OS can be attacked. It is how the OS handles being attacked is how we judge its security capabilities. Maybe this distro has a smaller attack surface with less server processes running?

    or maybe they forgot to plug in the network cable.

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  2. OSX by skingers6894 · · Score: 0, Troll

    "OSX is more secure"

    "That's only because they have no market share and no one bothers to write viruses for them"

    "So their market share is going to overtake Windows soon!"

    "No chance, I don't care how many iPods they sell they'll be lucky to hit 4% in your lifetime"

    "So... OSX is more secure"