According to the US-CERT announcement (Vulnerability note VU#713878), this problem was first published on july the 9th.... so it took MS 23 days to provide some "configuration changes" for a serious and critical problem.
So where is that Forrester report on how fast are linux distros to provide fixes to know problems vs MS. On average it seemed that MS is faster...
That report, like other "Windows vs linux" reports, has some methodological issues. There is a joint response from the distros... that in brief states that "Not all vulnerabilities have an equal impact on all users.", and that "For each vendor the report gives just a simple average, the "All/Distribution days of risk", which gives an inconclusive picture of the reality that users experience."
It seems to me that a security flaw that let people install key loggers in your machine, without you doing anything, and then sends tha info they harvest to some server in russia is a pretty BAD AND SERIOUS flaw!.
Slashdot Mirror
I am 33... and I can say the same.
Sorry, it should say june the 9th.
According to the US-CERT announcement (Vulnerability note VU#713878), this problem was first published on july the 9th.... so it took MS 23 days to provide some "configuration changes" for a serious and critical problem.
So where is that Forrester report on how fast are linux distros to provide fixes to know problems vs MS. On average it seemed that MS is faster...
That report, like other "Windows vs linux" reports, has some methodological issues. There is a joint response from the distros... that in brief states that "Not all vulnerabilities have an equal impact on all users.", and that "For each vendor the report gives just a simple average, the "All/Distribution days of risk", which gives an inconclusive picture of the reality that users experience."
It seems to me that a security flaw that let people install key loggers in your machine, without you doing anything, and then sends tha info they harvest to some server in russia is a pretty BAD AND SERIOUS flaw!.
K3b!
I do not know about eroaster... but k3b is great!
Brazil = 9th economy of the world... not bad. But you point is well taken.