StupidScript - 11:36 pm on May 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

ServerWatch.com [securityspace.com] indicates that Microsoft servers are one of the "underdogs" ... and they have been for quite some time now. If it was all about market share, then Apache would be the number one attack target in the server world. And maybe it is ... the several that I manage are attacked thousands of times per day. Funny how they never get in ... but then I run Linux as my OS of choice. Not that that establishes a causal relationship, but I think it's interesting in that context, don't you?

This has nothing to do with Microsoft v. The World. This is about poor security choices during the development of advertising vehicles (those third-party extensions and toolbars.) The extensions/toolbars behave exactly the same way whether installed on MacOS, Windows or Posix.

Of course, compromising a Linux browser running one of the extensions would limit the attack to that particular user's identity, and wouldn't compromise the box, but that's the way Linux is designed. (Windows users don't have that same level of protection, tho' ... as goes the browser, so goes the kernel ... :) )