Re: Worm and Virus attack

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From: Ben Bradley
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:30

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In sci.electronics.design, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

>On 20 Sep 2003 06:12:50 GMT, "Walter Harley"
><walterh@cafewalterNOSPAM.com> wrote:
>
>>"Keith R. Williams" <krw@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>>news:MPG.19d58c8293528ff598a6c3@enews.newsguy.com...
>>> [...] as long as the world runs on M$
>>> trash, we're going to have these problems.
>>
>>We'll have these problems for longer than that.  Indeed, we'll have these
>>problems for as long as email does more than convey plain text and the
>>Internet supports sending of nonsecure messages.  May I remind folks that
>>MSFT didn't invent the bug, and that the first worms were not on Windows?
>>Virus writers target whatever platform is dominant and powerful enough to
>>propagate the virus.  *All* nontrivial platforms have bugs that can be
>>exploited given enough interest.
>>
>
>
>Except that Windows is crap through and through.

   IMHO, you're underestimating the problem. :-(

>Windows defaults to least-secure settings when installed. Why?

   I was told it defaults to "most feature-laden" but then that was a
MS marketing person talking...:)

>Apple/UNIX/Linux/VMS/Solaris security lapses are measured in bugs per
>year, and often clock in at zero. Windows bugs run several per week.

   That's not really a fair comparison. If all OS'es had the same
market penetration, then it would be a fair comparison.
   Of course, even in a fair comparison, Microsoft would STILL have
one or two orders of magitude more bugs than the next most buggy OS.

>John

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