Which is the most secure generic popular operating system pl

[mikmik]

Interesting poll results from ComputerCops

1 Linux 32.52% (201)

2 Windows 19.74% (122)

3 Unix 14.72% (91)


MAC OS 11.17% (69)
DOS 8.09% (50)
OS/2 2.75% (17)
BE OS 2.75% (17)
VMS 2.43% (15)
S/390 2.27% (14)
NetWare 2.10% (13)
Java OS 0.97% (6)
Multics 0.49% (3)

[mushroom]

Truely shocking that people think windows is # 2 not # 10+

but then to is that Unix is not # 1.

Security is not all in the OS it starts behind the key board.

[mikmik]

Top 5 Vulnerabilities as Reported by Threat Focus July 12th, 2004

7/8/2004

Mozilla.org [Windows shell: scheme exposed in Mozilla]
Medium
7/6/2004

Red Hat [Updated httpd packages fix security issues]
Medium
7/3/2004

D-Link [DLINK 624, script injection vulnerability]
Medium
7/5/2004

MySQL [MySQL 4.1 prior to 4.1.3, and MySQL 5.0 - Authentication Bypass]
High
7/3/2004

IBM [Denial of Service in IBM WebSphere Edge Server]
High

Damn, I have (the first) THREE of these! Actually all of the first four, but I don't open MySQL up to the public.

[mushroom]

mikmik all of the vulnerabilities that you list that are open-source have patches avilable, that can not be said about proprititory software.

No matter what OS you use Update, Update, Update