I think you misunderstood what I'm saying. I'm not documenting this for 'my' job, nor am I worried about my job security.
I am trying to write documentation for 150 people around the world to follow so that we're all doing things the same way.
MS Windows NT family (ie. NT, 2000, XP, 2003) has a MUCH better security model than any UNIX I've seen, OpenBSD in particular.
Are you friggin serious?!?!?
How can anyone honestly say that Microsoft has a better security model? OpenBSD has had 1 root compromise in the default install in 7 years.
Yes, more features, more code, more holes, plain and simple. It's not even that OpenBSD lacks features, they're just not point and click easy, and maybe thats a good thing. It keeps any num nuts with a pirated version of XP (go registration) from polluting the net with another machine just waiting to be owned.
do you know why viruses/worms/trojans are designed with windows in mind? of course you'll reply with the knee-jerk "because it's so easy", but you won't think of the biggest reason. so i'll tell you. it's because of the huge market base of windows.
Call it a knee jerk if that makes it easier for you to handle. The fact is, it is easier for them on windows vs other OS's. All of the "enhancements" that M$ builds in scream to be taken advantage of. Thanks to all of their wonderful enhancements, there are worms sent via email that don't even have to be opened by the user to spread. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty darn easy to me.
I never said *ix OS's didn't have their faults, sure there has been a worm or two, but I can count them on one hand.
there are more windows viruses, but remember that there are more linux servers exploited than windows servers exploited.
As far as compromises go, the last time I checked, windows servers are compromised twice as much as *ix os servers. And before you give the "knee jerk" response of "there are more of them", let me point you to the latest netcraft survey. According to this, Apache has almost a 70% market share, and the vast majority of that runs on a platform other than windows. Yet Code Red and Nimda were both IIS worms.
So if I'm to use your methods, and I want to make a name for myself, I'd create a worm that targetted the platform with the most hosts connected to the internet, correct? Well, thats apache, not IIS. So I think it's safe to say that people target windows because it IS easier.
I mean for crying out loud, 2000 server came with IIS enabled, WTF?
Oh, and as far as your rebooting issues go... If you're rebooting your linux box as much as your windows platform, thats a sign of your incompetence, not the OS's.
I'm quite happy with Windows Media Player 9. It installs cleanly (no unpacking, scripts or stupid config-file tweaking), comes with the most common codecs and both recognizes and automatically downloads the rest.
On top of that, it sends all sorts of my information back to M$ for me. I'm sure it's used for making their products even better, never to spy on me.....
Know that your a part owner in a successful company that innovates technology
Are you serious? What has Microsoft innovated in the past 10 years?
Windows? Nope
Web Browsing? Nope
The internet? Nope
Oh wait, game consoles...Nope
Word Processing? Nope
Email? Wrong again
Everything above is an example of a great idea that Microsoft took, claimed it was their own, and then made worse then it could have ever been on it's own.
Oh wait, I can think of a few things they innovated, or at least helped in: An OS only needs to be rebooted to solve your problems.
Code Red
Nimda
Slammer
99% of all worms
Oh, I'm sure it's a great innovation, and then leave it to M$ (who is pure evil) to f*&# it all up and require MS9, IE, and Windows......
What will be a great innovation is once this is reverse engineered by some kid in his basement, and made free to all platforms.
Ok. I work for a rather large competitor of Symantec, and I know this is a lie. First, the number of infected hosts that symantec reported as about 1/5 of what we had seen so far. Second, we had some very large customers thank us for calling them, stating that they had yet to hear anything from Symantec. And judging by who this customer was, I'm sure they would have been on symantecs VIP list as well.
I just lost all of the respect I had for them.
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I think you misunderstood what I'm saying. I'm not documenting this for 'my' job, nor am I worried about my job security. I am trying to write documentation for 150 people around the world to follow so that we're all doing things the same way.
MS Windows NT family (ie. NT, 2000, XP, 2003) has a MUCH better security model than any UNIX I've seen, OpenBSD in particular.
Are you friggin serious?!?!?
How can anyone honestly say that Microsoft has a better security model? OpenBSD has had 1 root compromise in the default install in 7 years.
Yes, more features, more code, more holes, plain and simple. It's not even that OpenBSD lacks features, they're just not point and click easy, and maybe thats a good thing. It keeps any num nuts with a pirated version of XP (go registration) from polluting the net with another machine just waiting to be owned.
do you know why viruses/worms/trojans are designed with windows in mind? of course you'll reply with the knee-jerk "because it's so easy", but you won't think of the biggest reason. so i'll tell you. it's because of the huge market base of windows.
Call it a knee jerk if that makes it easier for you to handle. The fact is, it is easier for them on windows vs other OS's. All of the "enhancements" that M$ builds in scream to be taken advantage of. Thanks to all of their wonderful enhancements, there are worms sent via email that don't even have to be opened by the user to spread. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty darn easy to me. I never said *ix OS's didn't have their faults, sure there has been a worm or two, but I can count them on one hand.
there are more windows viruses, but remember that there are more linux servers exploited than windows servers exploited.
As far as compromises go, the last time I checked, windows servers are compromised twice as much as *ix os servers. And before you give the "knee jerk" response of "there are more of them", let me point you to the latest netcraft survey. According to this, Apache has almost a 70% market share, and the vast majority of that runs on a platform other than windows. Yet Code Red and Nimda were both IIS worms.
So if I'm to use your methods, and I want to make a name for myself, I'd create a worm that targetted the platform with the most hosts connected to the internet, correct? Well, thats apache, not IIS. So I think it's safe to say that people target windows because it IS easier.
I mean for crying out loud, 2000 server came with IIS enabled, WTF?
Oh, and as far as your rebooting issues go... If you're rebooting your linux box as much as your windows platform, thats a sign of your incompetence, not the OS's.
On top of that, it sends all sorts of my information back to M$ for me. I'm sure it's used for making their products even better, never to spy on me.....
Are you serious? What has Microsoft innovated in the past 10 years?
Windows? Nope
Web Browsing? Nope
The internet? Nope
Oh wait, game consoles...Nope
Word Processing? Nope
Email? Wrong again
Everything above is an example of a great idea that Microsoft took, claimed it was their own, and then made worse then it could have ever been on it's own.
Oh wait, I can think of a few things they innovated, or at least helped in:
An OS only needs to be rebooted to solve your problems.
Code Red
Nimda
Slammer
99% of all worms
Yes, M$ is clearly a leader in innovation.
Oh, I'm sure it's a great innovation, and then leave it to M$ (who is pure evil) to f*&# it all up and require MS9, IE, and Windows...... What will be a great innovation is once this is reverse engineered by some kid in his basement, and made free to all platforms.
Ok. I work for a rather large competitor of Symantec, and I know this is a lie. First, the number of infected hosts that symantec reported as about 1/5 of what we had seen so far. Second, we had some very large customers thank us for calling them, stating that they had yet to hear anything from Symantec. And judging by who this customer was, I'm sure they would have been on symantecs VIP list as well. I just lost all of the respect I had for them.