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Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:17 pm Reply and quote this post
A recent experiment by 2 Florida researchers shows that Windows Server 2003 is actually more secure than Linux. Amazing, I must say, but I'm not sure this article is completely valid. Red Hat Linux was used. I think better results could have been achieved if something like Fedora was tested. And since we all hate* Windows ( :happy: well everything but Windows 2K Pro), we should turn around and congratulate Mr. Bill Gates. :whistle:

*Note: Only few members here share my opinion.  :yawn:


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Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:14 pm Reply and quote this post
i have been very happy with windows xp pro.
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Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:45 pm Reply and quote this post
May give Win2K a go sometime, but others need lots of user input, installed but took off, Lazy that?s me lol
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Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:44 pm Reply and quote this post
I had Windows XP Home on the family HP computer, but I wiped it out and installed Windows 2000 Pro.
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Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:18 am Reply and quote this post
I think Win 2K is definitely more secure than XP.  And I could believe that it is more secure than Linux.
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Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:54 am Reply and quote this post
This topic and that article is just sad.  Linux is more secure then Windows.  Period.
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Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:21 pm Reply and quote this post
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This topic and that article is just sad.  Linux is more secure then Windows.  Period.


Will thats only Red-Hat and Windows Server 2003, what about the rest.
At least something is more secure then Linux

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Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:54 pm Reply and quote this post
Windows 2000 is not anymore secure than XP. Windows XP is just Windows 2000 with a better user interface and a few new features.

And Windows can be just as secure as Linux if you take proper precautions and don't go clicking on every link you see.  :P


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Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:54 pm Reply and quote this post
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This topic and that article is just sad.  Linux is more secure then Windows.  Period.


Will thats only Red-Hat and Windows Server 2003, what about the rest.
At least something is more secure then Linux

Yes, correct. It is only for a web server.

And to KoolDrew, yes I know the article is sad, but perhaps for web servers, it might be true. Not sure. As I said, it does not necessarily have to be true, it's just something interesting I found on the net.

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Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:17 pm Reply and quote this post
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At least something is more secure then Linux


Yeah, OpenBSD, not Windows.

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Windows 2000 is not anymore secure than XP.


XP is more secure then 2000

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Windows XP is just Windows 2000 with a better user interface and a few new features.


Wrong.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0...el/default.aspx

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And Windows can be just as secure as Linux if you take proper precautions and don't go clicking on every link you see.


Wrong.

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Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:21 pm Reply and quote this post
I still believe that 2000 is more secure than XP, excluding SP2. The only major advanced XP has is SP2, which initally had a lot of problems, but no all fixed up.

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Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:36 pm Reply and quote this post
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I still believe that 2000 is more secure than XP, excluding SP2. The only major advanced XP has is SP2, which initally had a lot of problems, but no all fixed up.

The only thing I don't like about SP2 is that it is harder to put the recovery consil on the hard drive...

And for KoolDrew's sake, the old features were improved as well is XP.


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Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:20 am Reply and quote this post
Let me reword my statement. Windows 2000 isn't fully safer than XP, but it is much more stable.
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Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:11 pm Reply and quote this post
XP is exteremly stable, its like a car with stabilizer bars, it just cant tip over.
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Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:23 pm Reply and quote this post
Well, compared to other Microsoft versions of Windows, XP is one of the stabl ones, next to 2000.
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