[aclug-L] Re: Linux Now Have More Security Problems Than Windows

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

Sounds like a biased article.  Open Source openly publishes breeches in 
security so that they can be patched.  M$ doesn't admit to breeches and 
I know that there have been several.  According to SARC, there are 
approx. 200 new viruses a month that compromise M$ systems.  Virus 
removal and data recovery is about 60-75% of our business in the shop. 
 Can you imagine how much business we would lose if people had and used 
linux wisely, ie., not run linux as root and have reasonably secure 
passwords?   Just an idea, not a suggestion.

David Carmichael wrote:

>Aberdeen Group: Linux and Open Source Now Have More Security Problems Than
>Windows
>
>According to a report published November 12 by Aberdeen Group, "Security
>advisories for open source and Linux software accounted for 16 out of the 29
>security advisories - about one of every two advisories - published for the
>first 10 months of 2002 by CERT" Aberdeen says Microsoft products have had
>no new virus or trojan horse advisories in the first 10 months of 2002,
>while Unix, Linux, and Open Source software went from one in 2001 to two in
>the first 10 months of 2002, that in the same 2002 time period "networking
>equipment" (operating system unspecified) had six advisories, and Mac OSX
>had four.
>
>Read the full story on: NewsForge
>
>http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/11/14/1913227.shtml?tid=2
>
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