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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rudedog who wrote (38905)	3/2/2000 2:49:00 AM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

There are much more tools out there on hacking sites to bring down Windows NT or Windows 2000 than a Unix: My nephiew at 12 could easily bring down many NT-based sites if I showed him the URL of a hacker's site! It is common knowledge with security experts, that Windows technology has many more possible security holes than nix boxes. What people very often forget, when comparing nix boxes to NT boxes on web-servers is that the NT servers often use ActiveX components with Active Server Pages. These ActiveX components typically stay in memory and eat memory. They also provide security holes. You can have an extremely stable operating system, and extremely stable web-server, but what does it help if the contents on the homepage says "ActiveX object error"? You cannot do any surveillance, that will catch all these problems. That's also why NT servers are restarted once a day, if they carry intelligent pages. *nix boxes typically do CGI on complicated stuff, which cleans up everything after each hit. They also have very clear security technology, which makes it easier to design CGI scripts that do not provide a security hole, compared to ActiveX objects. Please don't discuss web-servers as if they were file servers!!!