getting things straight...

[Heru]

A typical security hole in Linux gets fixed in a week or two after it is discovered.

A typical security hole in Windows is fixed in a week or two after MS announces that it exists.  It is a fact that MS finds out about these things months before they fix them.

As has been stated earlier Linux and BSD is more secure.  No one said it is bulletproof.  Anything can be hacked, if you know how.  It's just that I can hack a windows computer but not a Linux one; and I have next to no programming knowledge.

[cyrax]

Has anyone ever been on #xdcc on irc.criten.net ? it has over a thousand HACKED linux boxes hosting terabytes of warez. and thats only one of the channels on that server. mind you the server is hacked too... type /list and look at all the channels, go into one and look at all the root-kit jobs of linux boxes. To believe that someone can use a root kit on your box, open up a backdoor port replace SSH with a hacked version, kill logs, replace every program that can reveal who did it is unbelievable. And its all so easy too. btw i dont see any hacked windows boxes hosting warez on mirc  

[cyrax]

all of that is true, windows boxes are full of vulnerabilies except there is no use with a hacked win box. who would want to hack my box down? they cant host warez off me or anything, theres no point. But is great for remote access and use.. u can run eggdrops, bouncers, irc servers, crontabs if you hack a box and you dont have to pay money for it... It annoys me to see shell hosting companys exploiting free linux to make money of it by charging access to it.. tsk tsk

[cyrax]

all those hacked servers hosting warez on mirc are all definately large companys, those boxes have hundreds of gigabytes of storage on them, huge bandwidth, im talking 5000kb\s upload. Either the company admin is a dipstick, but i dont think there would be thousands of admin dipsticks around.. or there are serious problems in linux.

[cyrax]

Voidman whats the point of that uptime? the uptime counter resets after 490 days thanks to linux you will have no proof after that.. heehee  

[voidmain]

What's the point of all that uptime???????  You dumbass, do you think I care about the actual number of days *because* of the number of days?  NO! I care about the uptime because I don't want to disrupt service to my users.  Geez... You're starting to sound like that Windows XP Luser #-0001234

[ June 02, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Calum]

this is just the new cyrax moronic wankoff thread, since i closed his other thread due to the fact that he was talking a load of shit.

There is an alarming similarity between the ludicrousness of his arguments there, and here so, predicatably, this thread is now closed also, thanks for your custom.