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Microsoft vs. Computer Security
ArieKremen writes "The Slate has a piece written for the average user attempting to explain why Windows is `still` grappling with security issues. Although Gates made security and privacy top priority four years ago, not much progress has been made." From the article: "Microsoft customers haven't stopped worrying. A year later, Windows was hit with several nasty worms, including Slammer, Sobig, and Blaster. The viruses caused major traffic bottlenecks throughout the world, which cost tens of billions of dollars to clean up. Vulnerabilities deemed 'critical' have forced the company to release an almost unending stream of patches and fixes to the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, and Internet Explorer." An interesting look at the whole issue.
I just think there's some people out there you, that no matter how much you may try, you just can't help, and you can be absolutely sure that these people are using Windows.
In short I think the most critical security issue with Windows is the poeple that use it.
"The difference being, however, that Firefox (unlike IE) can not execute ActiveX objects, making it far less likely for a remote execution flaw to occur in Firefox than in IE. An important point to leave out."
That has nothing to do with my point. - that an exploit is an exploit regardless of weather it's IE or Firefox, but FYI, executing activeX controls is not actaully the danger - it's installing new, nasty ones, and in IE , only administrators can install ActiveX controls.
Vulnerabilties that cause auto-installation of ActiveX controls fail if the user doesn't have admin rights.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
Couldn't it be that Windows gets more attacked because it's just more popular? Maybe if other OSes were that popular they would also fall like that.
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Agreed - MOD UP!
I don't make predictions, and I never will.