From: Ellen K. 

Sauce for the goose.   If a vulnerability in IE or Outlook is counted as
Windows, then the below counts as Linux.

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:39:20 +0000, Adam Flinton
 wrote in message :

>Rich wrote:
>
>>    You don't have to look so far.  RedHat released a bulletin for a
>> remote attack and likely exploit today.  See
>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-051.html.
>
>Which is for an application called mutt not linux.
>
>> The previous remote
>> vulnerability, not the previous vulnerbility, was just three weeks
>> earlier (https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-032.html).
>
>Which is for a IM app called GAIM not linux.
>
>> There are
>> 11 security vulnerabilities in redhat linux 9 so far this year and 81
>> since it was released just 10-1/2 months ago.  That is about 7-1/2
>> vulnerabilities per month.  It's not that linux is not full of problems,
>> it's that virtually no one cares.
>>
>
>Hey let's start adding up all the vulnerabilities in all the windows
>applications. Heck a mozilla on windows problem would thus be a
>Windows/MS one as would an AOL one or a borland one etc.etc.
>
>Adam
>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>>     "Jeff Shultz" >     > wrote in message
>>     news:pan.2004.02.12.05.48.06.499952{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
>>     On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:55:34 -0500, Geo. wrote:
>>
>>      > http://www..eeye.com/html/Research/Upcoming/index.html
>>     http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Upcoming/index.html>
>>      >
>>      > Just go look it's not an exploit it's a list of reasons
why you can't
>>      > trust MS to protect your computers.
>>      >
>>      > Geo.
>>
>>     There are some who would probably kill me for this.. but I'd really be
>>     interested in seeing what would happen if eeye turned some of that
>>     talent
>>     loose on Linux.
>>
>>     Either we'd get a heck of a lot of fixes...or the Linux-heads would have
>>     some strong evidence to back up the claim that Linux is more secure than
>>     Windows.

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