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October 1st, 2004, 12:33 AM
#31
One thing nobody mentioned/questioned: what kind of flaws were the OSes tested for, and what installation was made of Linux? Not distribution wise, I mean number of applications... Fedora Core, for example, comes on 3 CDs. Everybody that can open their mouth and say they know Linux realizes that the OS itself doesn't take that much space; if it was a bootstrapped text-based Gentoo distribution, updated, then I'd like to see some results aswell. Install minimum Windows and minimum Linux and test then.
I already mentioned what kind of flaws, and by that I mean remote, local, privilege escalation, everything... what kind of a vuln it was etc. So I'm still sketchy about many things.
I get free MS licenced software through my University. Well, OSes and .NET, but I don't know to what degree I will be using them... want to test the Server for now, will see what else later. So for the next five years my choices can be entirely based on what I like more since both Linux and Windows cost me the same [two or three blank CDs ]
But anyway, the original thread poster has some gaps to fill I feel.
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October 1st, 2004, 01:50 AM
#32
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I would put money on it that MS somehow "sponsered" the survey. Also, what about this JPEG virus, has MS fixed that?
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October 1st, 2004, 02:02 AM
#33
SP2 is not vulnerable to the jpeg exploit as far as I know.
Edit: Someone sent me a PM that SP2 was vulnerable to the jpeg exploit so I'll post a few articles and if you want to hunt down the source to the exploit it says SP2 isn't vulnerable.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/36629.html
http://www.microsoft.com/security/bu...0409_jpeg.mspx
And I don't feel like hunting the article SDK posted but it says it there too. The source is in that thread if you want to hunt it down.
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