Interesting...Windows security flaws < UNIX's?

[toadlife]

You mean "(Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition) and IIS6", seeing as that's all II6 runs on.

Either/or. WinXP x64 is actually just Win2k3 x64 with the Luna theme pasted onto it. Look up the vulnerability history of IIS6 and you'll find that in the three years since it has been released there have been all of two discovered, and both of them would not be exploitable in a default installation, much less a hardened installation. In that same time frame there have been somewhere along the lines of 25 vulnerabilities discovered for Apache 1.x and 2.x.

Now, if the daemons were running were Windows File and Printer Sharing" (SMB) vs NFS/CUPS, I might have to put my money on linux.

[piratePenguin]

Either/or. WinXP x64 is actually just Win2k3 x64 with the Luna theme pasted onto it. Look up the vulnerability history of IIS6 and you'll find that in the three years since it has been released there have been all of two discovered, and both of them would not be exploitable in a default installation, much less a hardened installation. In that same time frame there have been somewhere along the lines of 25 vulnerabilities discovered for Apache 1.x and 2.x.

Now, if the daemons were running were Windows File and Printer Sharing" (SMB) vs NFS/CUPS, I might have to put my money on linux.

Apache mightn't be perfectly safe over a long period of time if you're not alowd to update. But if you could install updates, I'm sure it'd be just fine.

[Calum]

all statistics are lies.

the people who make decisions based on statistics should realise that they *must* understand how the data was collected, how it is totalled and what has been left out before they can even begin to understand what's going on.

to the uninformed, statistics (including all those TCO ones) can be made to show anything, literally.

[piratePenguin]

all statistics are lies.

Only 73% of them are.

[Aloone_Jonez]

The thing that bothers me is UNIX is a whole familly of operating systems and Windows is just one (sorry 2 if you count the 9x shit). Of course if you add up the vulnerabilities for all varieties of Linux and BSD + Solaris + (all the other UNIX clones) you'll get more than Windows XP + 2k + 2003 + (even I dare say 9x), it's just fucking obvious, damn there're some idiots around. :rolleyes: