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A new study funded by Microsoft Corp. suggests some web servers running on Windows are more secure than those employing the leading Linux-based solution. Microsoft says the results refute the commonly held belief that Linux offers a more secure environment for web servers.

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Oho! That would explain...

AnonymousCoward ·
...why virus attacks are up 50% this year, and practically all of the victims are Microsoft-based. What a BOLA!

little math

maggrand ·
there are over/about 100 000 viruses for the 'secure' windows plattform. Add all spam and other security threats to that. lets see....last i did check it was about 50 viruses for Linux. A figure that have not moved much the recently years. Even the user base have increased. hmmmm....

So you have just a 2000% more chance to get a virus on a Windows machine then on any other OS. No wonder why all people that i know and run windows have been infected or have trouble in some other way. So secure and windows in the same sentence...... just let me puke...

Magnus G

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