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Refalm:
Read here.

preacher:
My question is whether the vulnerabilities have to do with the applications or the OS itself. For instance, are the apache and ssh vulnerabilities listed as linux vulnerabilities even though they can be on multiple different systems?

Pantso:
It's not very clear whether the author of this article is talking about Mac OS or OS X. Mac OS is a lot more safe than OS X and other Unix variants. Whatever...

Refalm, I can already see XP luser and Zombie using the "more popular OS -> more attacks" argument once more.   :D

Refalm:
The thing about this is that this is a battle of safety between Mac OS X, Linux, SCO Unix and BSD...

Windows is losing big time acording to the article

pkd_lives:
I really don't like that document. It stinks with biased panic about security writing. This is a security firm that is making these statements, and it offers no where near the clarification of it's business practices to remove what I am seeing as self interest.

Now closer examination suggest this was a server analysis. It seems to be more about company security, about records access. So should I be able to ignore this as a desktop security analyis? Like was said before, what are the breakdowns of the analysis in more comparable terms? It's all too ambiguous for me to take too seriously.

However if it is server based then M$ loose big time, over 50% of attacks, and what an estimated 25 to 30% of the market (this is a figure that was quoted in this forum as coming from netcraft - anyone who can correct this please do)

And this seems to not involve attacks that were just plain Virii.

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