From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Microsoft has said in court that IE IS a part of windows , so those should
count .

Bob Lewis

"Ellen K." 
wrote in message news:1c4n20ded7ldem0c6m1mmipujp5oru0j5r{at}4ax.com...
> 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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