[Gorzaloon]

Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses

Haha...*gasp* Say it ain't so..

I am SHOCKED.

Aghast!

ROFLMAO.

That's the benefit of running an obscure, unpopular OS. No one bothers writing malware for it. I miss OS/2. or the C=64, come to think of it.

Just like when I had a Studebaker as a kid. Nobody ever stole the hubcaps.

[Knitebane]

That's the benefit of running an obscure, unpopular OS. No one bothers writing malware for it. I miss OS/2. or the C=64, come to think of it.

Often repeated, but wrong.

Windows v Linux security: the real facts

Myth Windows only gets attacked most because it's such a big target, and if Linux use (or indeed OS X use) grew then so would the number of attacks.

Fact When it comes to web servers, the biggest target is Apache, the Internet's server of choice. Attacks on Apache are nevertheless far fewer in number, and cause less damage. And in some case Apache-related attacks have the most serious effect on Windows machines. Attacks are of course aimed at Windows because of the numbers of users, but its design makes it a much easier target, and much easier for an attack to wreak havoc. Windows' widespread (and often unnecessary) use of features such as RPC meanwhile adds vulnerabilities that really need not be there. Linux's design is not vulnerable in the same ways, and no matter how successful it eventually becomes it simply cannot experience attacks to similar levels, inflicting similar levels of damage, to Windows.