Your Zone-H argument is comparing apples to oranges. The Zone-H page you link to shows web page defacements. Web sites can be insecure on whatever OS they are running. They don't even rely on the underlying OS. You can take a website with poor security and run it on the most secure OS in the world and it can be defaced. That doesn't say anything about the security of the OS! Just because you can deface a web page does not mean the OS is vulnerable. None of the data you point to has any relevance to this discussion.
You don't know how secure any OS is until you have written kernel level modules for that OS. I have for both Windows and Linux and Windows security is a joke.
Yeah, I live in East Texas. The only reason to be in court here is because the people in the jury pool here could never understand the technical details of any tech patent. The fax machine is a new invention here.
One of your great links is just a forum of people who say Linux is vulnerable. No documentation of any virus.
Also, these threats hardly count as virii. They are injection attacks on the web server. Most desktop users are not even running a web server. They don't infect OS files, just PHP scripts. If we count PHP injection as virii, then Windows has thousands more vulnerabilities to include.
Lots of the virii noted for Linux are proof of concept code that have never been seen in the wild and only the anti-virus companies seem to have any knowledge of it at all. Maybe because it is in their best interest to find Linux virii. And to spread these virii requires an unsecured system and a priveleged user to run the infected program.
There are plenty of Windows virii that do not require a privileged user to run the virus code. Any user can just connect to a website with code that can infect Windows.
You may be too young to remember, but there are virii for MS that you just have to stick an infected floppy in your drive and it will infect the system all by itself. No program needs to be executed by the user at all.
Ok. Just to satisfy you, I did search for "Linux Virus" on Google. There is not a single link to a Linux virus. Lots of discussion about how there will be more Linux virii in the future.
The only malware attributed to Linux requires the user to run an untrusted application as a privileged user. THAT does not make a virus, but a stupid user.
So again I say, post a link to proof of this "Linux Virus" you speak of. Or else you are full of bs?
That's what happens when you are disabled and go bankrupt due to medical bills and inability to work. If you end up on Social Security, sometimes $12K per year is what you have to live on. There are lots of us out there.
Ok, is the theory of Gravity proven? No. But we have a pretty good idea that it exists.
One (evolution) has an enormous history of scientific study and experimentation validated by peer research.
The other (Christian Creation) is believed by a bunch of people that have no evidence verified by any experimentation and in fact has plenty of scientific evidence to the contrary.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1072638.ece.
So how about in Science class we study the information gathered by the scientific method and leave faith to the people who choose to believe things not in evidence?
You don't have to be an expert in computers to back up your data. Anyone who uses a computer should be able to do that, or you are not qualified to use a computer.
Also in this information age the average joe should have computer skills. If you don't have the skills to manage the foibles of your operating system you should use something more reliable, like Linux or Mac. Doesn't take a PhD in anything to know that.
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Your Zone-H argument is comparing apples to oranges. The Zone-H page you link to shows web page defacements. Web sites can be insecure on whatever OS they are running. They don't even rely on the underlying OS. You can take a website with poor security and run it on the most secure OS in the world and it can be defaced. That doesn't say anything about the security of the OS! Just because you can deface a web page does not mean the OS is vulnerable. None of the data you point to has any relevance to this discussion.
You don't know how secure any OS is until you have written kernel level modules for that OS. I have for both Windows and Linux and Windows security is a joke.
Yeah, I live in East Texas. The only reason to be in court here is because the people in the jury pool here could never understand the technical details of any tech patent. The fax machine is a new invention here.
Did you even read the links you posted? The lupper was patched years ago. Same for XMLRPC. See this link here: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14088/solution.
One of your great links is just a forum of people who say Linux is vulnerable. No documentation of any virus.
Also, these threats hardly count as virii. They are injection attacks on the web server. Most desktop users are not even running a web server. They don't infect OS files, just PHP scripts. If we count PHP injection as virii, then Windows has thousands more vulnerabilities to include.
Lots of the virii noted for Linux are proof of concept code that have never been seen in the wild and only the anti-virus companies seem to have any knowledge of it at all. Maybe because it is in their best interest to find Linux virii. And to spread these virii requires an unsecured system and a priveleged user to run the infected program.
There are plenty of Windows virii that do not require a privileged user to run the virus code. Any user can just connect to a website with code that can infect Windows.
You may be too young to remember, but there are virii for MS that you just have to stick an infected floppy in your drive and it will infect the system all by itself. No program needs to be executed by the user at all.
Ok. Just to satisfy you, I did search for "Linux Virus" on Google. There is not a single link to a Linux virus. Lots of discussion about how there will be more Linux virii in the future. The only malware attributed to Linux requires the user to run an untrusted application as a privileged user. THAT does not make a virus, but a stupid user. So again I say, post a link to proof of this "Linux Virus" you speak of. Or else you are full of bs?
That's what happens when you are disabled and go bankrupt due to medical bills and inability to work. If you end up on Social Security, sometimes $12K per year is what you have to live on. There are lots of us out there.
What Linux malware is there that has not been patched? Show a link?
Ok, is the theory of Gravity proven? No. But we have a pretty good idea that it exists. One (evolution) has an enormous history of scientific study and experimentation validated by peer research.
The other (Christian Creation) is believed by a bunch of people that have no evidence verified by any experimentation and in fact has plenty of scientific evidence to the contrary.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1072638.ece.
So how about in Science class we study the information gathered by the scientific method and leave faith to the people who choose to believe things not in evidence?
If the job you are trying to get done is to display blue screens, you are correct.
You don't have to be an expert in computers to back up your data. Anyone who uses a computer should be able to do that, or you are not qualified to use a computer. Also in this information age the average joe should have computer skills. If you don't have the skills to manage the foibles of your operating system you should use something more reliable, like Linux or Mac. Doesn't take a PhD in anything to know that.