Symantec CEO: Take new tack against Net attacks

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"If and when the Linux target set gets as rich as Microsoft's, I believe you will find more vulnerabilities than you do today."

Based on what? That is is impossible to write software any better than MS? That the *nix security model isn't superior to the pathetic windows model? Or that Symantec hasn't a virus revenue model if people switch from windows?

Over 66% of active internet sites are hosted with open source apache, a large percentage of these on Linux. The security record is for all to see. With that number of IIS server the internet would be unusable. Add to these servers BIND, Sendmail, Qmail, seems most internet facing and highest risk servers are already *nix.

In additon until Office is port to Linux we can ignore all those VBScript virii.

If this is not enough to improve virii protection under *nix I can mount the /home and public directory as "noexec" and then even my users can't run any executables (virus or other) downloaded to their working directories.

So professor how do make the claim that Linux (or any of the *nix style OSes) will ever be as vunerable as windows?

Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 11/19/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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