"Peter Foldes" <> wrote in news:#dGHkkKeJHA.3792
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> MS has patched fixed this last November. Even say's so in the article
>
> Might want to check this out though
>
> Ubuntu security fixes . First 100 out of 1200. Last one only yesterday
> http://www.vupen.com/english/searchengine.php
And the last one listed for Windows is yesterday too. Big deal. It's kind
of hard to accurately count these for any OS w/o spending a lot of time,
since many are in 3rd party s/w and listed under the O/S the s/w runs on.
>
> All Linux fixes. To many to count
> http://www.vupen.com/english/linux-advisories/2
Except that Linux distro's share many of the same components, so many of
those vulnerabilities are listed multiple times, once for Ubuntu, once
for Redhat, once for Gentoo, etc.
But let's get realistic here.......almost all of these vulnerabilities,
on their own, is fairly insignificant if there isn't some process running
that takes advantage of them.
This process would typically some form of virus, worm, trojan, or
malware, of which we all know is 99.99~% most likely a Windows system.
And, they don't even need to exploit some security 'hole' even.
If you go back to that web page you cited and look at the malware
warnings...
http://www.vupen.com/english/malware-advisories/
....you would see that since Jan 1, 2009, around 450 new malware packages
have been identified....for Windows.
This is, by far, the biggest problem.
The Internet would be a much safer place if there was no threat of a
website silently installing s/w on a PC just by visiting it.
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