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You always read folks bragging that Linux, or Unix is so much more secure than Windows. What is your view or experience with this issue?
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If configured and used correctly and kept updated with patches then i think they are the same. A well configured windows system and some common sense can be very secure but "out of the box" i would hazard a guess that maybe UNIX based systems are more secure
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I don't know how both OS's are built internally, but I feel just about the same amount of "safety" when using Vista as when I use Ubuntu. As Bennet says, it sort of really boils down to the user behind the mouse. I know someone who refuses to believe that the porn sites he visits are the cause for the tons of malware on his XP system, because "I used this same site before and nothing happened."
You really can't ignore the fact that there are *zero* currently effective (e.g working) Linux viruses and thousands of windows ones. One Linux and UNIX, you really just have to worry about being attacked, in which you are actually a more diserable target.
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>What is your view or experience with this issue?
Linux and Unix users tend not to run as a super user. Windows users almost always run as an administrator. The security debate is already skewed in favor of Unix/Linux because if you don't run as a super user, you've effectively eliminated the threats that any practical security suite would protect you from.
Linux and Unix users tend not to run as a super user. Windows users almost always run as an administrator. The security debate is already skewed in favor of Unix/Linux because if you don't run as a super user, you've effectively eliminated the threats that any practical security suite would protect you from.
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Totally virus-proof computer: Tandy Color Computer. The OS is in ROM, so it can't be compromised.
Totally virus-proof computer: Tandy Color Computer. The OS is in ROM, so it can't be compromised.
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Totally virus-proof computer: Tandy Color Computer. The OS is in ROM, so it can't be compromised.
No computer can ever be 100% secure. There could be backdoors in the OS and secondly, if a malious party had physical access, they could modofy the ROM.
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I think hackers prefer to write viruses for windows since vast majority of common people use windows and windows is all the same everywhere .unlike linux and unix
theres actually not that many official UNIX variants (by that i mean the ones legally allowed to call themselves UNIX and not unix-like). only ones currently in major usage are AIX, OSX, Z/os, HP/UX and Solaris
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