Maybe Vista is based on *nix!

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007, James McDonald wrote:
>Harry Giles wrote:
>> "Windows Vista is "dramatically more secure than any other operating 
>> system released", Microsoft founder Bill Gates has told BBC News."
>>
>>   
>If this is a correct quote of Bill Gates does this mean that he believes 
>that the only operating systems are Microsoft OS's?
>
>I think maybe he should have qualified himself and changed it to
>
>"Windows Vista is "dramatically more secure than any other operating 
>system released *by Microsoft*"

There's a link in the article below describing ``How Microsoft
Ensures Virus-Free Software''.  The link disappeared from the
Microsoft support site, but the 'Wayback Machine still has it so
I changed the article to point to that.

	http://www.celestial.com/Security/iloveyou

That said, I am seeing a fairly large number of cracked Linux
systems, mostly the result of bad passwords or PHP security
holes.  The least dangerous of these are user-level breakins
where the cracker installs bots running as an unpriviledged user.
More recently I've seen a number of rootkitted machines cracked
through webmin, usermin, or bad passwords via secure shell with
unrestricted password access allowed.

Bill
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