8 Mar
2011
8 Mar
'11
8:43 p.m.
John R Pierce wrote:
On 03/08/11 10:59 AM, David Brian Chait wrote:
That may be, but the advice is still valid, windows is infinitely more vulnerable than *NIX on a direct/open connection. Most corps filter traffic to windows boxes through intermediaries to limit risk.
Corps firewall their unix servers too. All our public internet servers are in a secure DMZ isolated from both our WAN and the Internet. How is that any different?
Millions of users carry Windows laptops and use them at public access points daily. Windows since XP SP2 has had a perfectly decent firewall
<snip> *snort* And how many *millions* of Windows systems are part of botnets?
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