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To: SunSpot who wrote (38910)	3/2/2000 8:32:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 74651

SunSpot - re:There are much more tools out there on hacking sites to bring down Windows NT or Windows 2000 than a Unix There is a fair amount of stuff for NT4 but almost NOTHING for W2K... take a look. It is common knowledge with security experts, that Windows technology has many more possible security holes than nix boxes.* Here again you need to specify what Windows technology you are talking about. Win9X has virtually NO security and a 10 year old could hack it. NT is better but as you point out, the many "add-ons" have provided rich opportunity for hackers, especially those willing to send altered content via a "trojan horse" DLL or active control. W2K is a whole new game - and it looks to me like it will be a lot easier to maintain a high standard of security, and a lot harder for the system to intentionally or unintentionally drift to a less secure status. Web servers are not file servers... but file servers (not web servers) are what got used as phantom hosts in the recent DoS attacks, and they were Unix servers, not Windows servers. The Web servers which were the targets of the attacks did not need to be security compromised, they just needed to fall over under the load. And as I said earlier, although it is relatively easy to maintain a highly secure Unix site, the majority of sites do not have either the procedures or the discipline to do it. A "vanilla" Unix system is much more vulnerable than a "vanilla" W2K system.

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