Windows Most Secure OS?

[Ideas Man]

This is a little old but here's something (Sir) Bill Gates said, agree or disagree, he has a point.

"Windows is a more secure system than rival offerings based on Linux or UNIX, specifically because Windows has been under such strenuous attack for the past several years."

"As the most popular system by far, Windows is constantly attacked and has borne a brunt of attacks that's simply unknown on other platforms. As a result, Windows has emerged as the most secure platform", Gates said.

"A high-volume system like Windows that has been thoroughly tested will be by far the most secure," he noted. "To say a system is secure because no one is attacking it is very dangerous."

[Kasracer]

That would be a definate no. abcdefg posted this (or touched on it) in another thread.

[<ABX]

he he he Windows Secure?

To access anyfiles on a WinXP comp all you need is a bootable win2k cd to run 2k's recovery console it ignores the administrator password

Talk about backwards compadibity

[Madboy]

I agree Windows is the most popular, but not the Most secure. I heard that the Mac OS never ever crashes, is that true?

[Sastraxi]

Guess why MacOS is based on a form of Unix, I think it's BSD In fact, it can run many if not most platform-independant linux programs.

[NotLKH]

I've heard the same thing about MACS. If, By crashing, they mean mysterious, sudden system shutdowns, then I've never seen a mac crash.

However, I've seen active applications just POOF into thin air, and Its not uncommon for the system to hang when you DO try to shut it down. At least OS10 anyways.

[SteveCRM]

the macs at school ALWAYS crash. freezes for about 5 minutes, then totally bombs and shuts itself off. complete ****e

[SteveCRM]

did i say a bad word? bad bad me

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by Madboy
I agree Windows is the most popular, but not the Most secure. I heard that the Mac OS never ever crashes, is that true?

Macs crash alot. I've even seen the Apple BSOD before.

[IntelSucks]

No freaking way windows is the most secure OS....well it depends on which version you are talking about.


Windows 98....its OKay but it WILL crash on you a lot
Windows ME...SUCKS
Window XP....pretty secure and takes a lot to crash it

[plenderj]

Originally posted by <ABX
he he he Windows Secure?

To access anyfiles on a WinXP comp all you need is a bootable win2k cd to run 2k's recovery console it ignores the administrator password

Talk about backwards compadibity

All you're doing is accessing an NTFS partition - there's nothing strange or wonderful about that.
Try enabling encryption on your files however, and you'll find its quite another matter to recover them.

[alphanumeric]

No way, I was going to compare it to swiss cheese but that wouldn't be fare, the cheese has a lot less holes in it.

[CornedBee]

No way. Bugs keep coming up again and again. Windows has been under attack, but MS hasn't learned anything.


Though I wonder how secure a Linux system would be when owned by some of the morons that sit in front of their computers.

[CornedBee]

Originally posted by <ABX
he he he Windows Secure?

To access anyfiles on a WinXP comp all you need is a bootable win2k cd to run 2k's recovery console it ignores the administrator password

Talk about backwards compadibity

Same works with Linux. I can plug the LiveCD in and boot from it and I am root. Then I mount the HDD and chroot there, and I have access to all your precious files.


Lesson? No computer is ever secure to someone having physical access to it.

[NoteMe]

Adding to CornedBees last comment....no computer is safe as long as it is possible for some information to reach it, if it physical or over a line....