Software vulnerabilities still dog operating systems

[Hammer]

Wow. I'm ever so stunned that, even adding app problems in, Win XP is less vulnerable than Linux.

WinXP’s security flaws are more exposed in mainstream media than the said Linux/GNU distributions.

Kinda wish the author had included stats for Win ME, or has everyone done the right thing and dumped it?

The problems with WinME is that, it’s somewhat competing with Win2K.

[mikeymike]

Wow. I'm ever so stunned that, even adding app problems in, Win XP is less vulnerable than Linux.

Cobblers.  IE vulnerabilities alone outnumber a conservative (not world + dog packages) Linux distro.

Read bugtraq and NTBugtraq.  There's not a week goes by without some discussion regarding exploiting IE, and/or a new vulnerability announced.  And I think "street cred" is lacking somewhat in finding IE vulns, it's like pointing out that there's holes in swiss cheese :-)

[Hammer]

Cobblers. IE vulnerabilities alone outnumber a conservative (not world + dog packages) Linux distro.

The statistics was only for the year 2003 i.e. not including last year’s IE 6.0-SP1 issues. Alternative statistical numbers would be a good idea…

[asian1]

Hi
IMO the best "Anti Hackers/Worm/Virus" is LiveCD.
1. Prepare good Linux LiveCD (re-mastered).
2. Disconnect hard disk.
3. Increase size of RAM (ie 128 MB / more).
4. Connect CD-ROM drive (not writer). Boot the PC.
There are Linux for PPC LiveCD (Franz etc).