Vulnerabilities in OS

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Tallies kept by the U.S. government's computer security group show that Linux and Unix operating systems faced nearly three times the number of vulnerabilities in 2005 than did Microsoft's often-maligned Windows.

In the US-CERT (United Stated Computer Emergency Readiness Team) year-end vulnerability summary, Linux/Unix accounted for a whopping 2,328 vulnerabilities, about 45 percent of the 5,198 total.

Windows, on the other hand, sported just 812 vulnerabilities during the year, said US-CERT, or 16 percent of the total.

Good to know that somebody's keeping tallies of all the vulnerabilities. I was under the impression that Windows OS is the most attacked OS and has lot of vulnerability, but thanks to the new security features in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP and the Automatic Updates, it is less vulnerable than before. I feel already safe and if you're thinking about the latest WMF vulnerability in Windows see How to stay safe with the new Windows vulnerability for a quick fix until the updates kick in.

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