To: Paloma_55
A Mac, or run Linux.
The old "more users thus more attacks" canard is easily demonstrated to be false, since the Apache web server (which runs on Unix systems) has much more market share and runs on many more machines; yet MSFT's IIS web server is far and away compromised more often.
It is an architectual problem - XP and Office are not well designed, while Unix and Mac OSX are. The better design makes it easier to verify where security holes might be, and then fix them.
12 posted on
10/01/2005 9:28:27 AM PDT by
ikka
To: ikka
Not gonna argue with ya.. wouldn't be prudent!
I agree that MS has a bad habit of designing code with time to market being their prime objective.
This makes things more susceptible.
19 posted on
10/01/2005 6:31:41 PM PDT by
Paloma_55
(Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
To: ikka
The old "more users thus more attacks" canard is easily demonstrated to be false, since the Apache web server (which runs on Unix systems) has much more market share and runs on many more machines; yet MSFT's IIS web server is far and away compromised more often.
Wrong, try comparing apples with apples. Compare Apache to IIS6. You're in for a surprise.
42 posted on
10/02/2005 8:11:18 PM PDT by
Bush2000
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