Re: Top Vulnerabilities to Windows Systems

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Leythos wrote:

> On Wed, 04 May 2005 14:56:51 +0000, NoStop wrote:
>>
>> A Windoze user is
>> vulnerable just by connecting to the Net as a client. The Unix user is
>> not. The Unix user simply doesn't run servers open to the Net if the
>> machine is going to be a client machine.
>
> I got news for you - there are a lot of Windows level users starting to
> run Linux systems on the net with the same level of understanding as they
> had when installing Windows. In most cases the major distro's have a GUI
> based installer that requires no understanding of Linux to get a working
> system running/installed. In many cases the Linux boxes are unpatched, are
> often running many server type services, and the user runs as root just
> like in Windows.
>
I'm sure some newbies are running as root on some systems. Although in my
limited experience there are plenty of warning flags thrown up if a user
tries to open a GUI as root. In fact, some distros won't even allow that.
So I think you're exaggerating the problem somewhat. BTW, there's no such a
thing as "root" in Windoze and I think you already knew that. :-)

> There are just as many technical users in both camps, but as the installer
> for Linux distro's makes it simpler to install and setup, the more those
> systems will become compromised.
>
You might be correct. I don't have experience with a lot of Linux distros.
The few that I've used give the installer options as to what they want to
install. Whether it's going to be a workstation or a server or both, for
example. I'd suspect that even a novice computer user should be able to
ascertain whether they wanted to setup a web server or not and in my
limited experience, the user is fully prompted as to what that means. Also,
the latest distros pretty much have the various server vulnerabilities
already patched out of the box. I still maintain that the far larger threat
to the computer world is the vulnerability of clients rather than servers,
as witnessed by the unbelievable amount of malware being circulated via
email and web browsing.

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