From the Dark Side--Windows has Most Critical Flaws according to Symantec Study

In comparing Windows, Red Hat Linux and Mac OS X, a study by Symantec found that Windows has the most critical security holes, nearly one-third of 39 total security holes in the second six months of 2006. This is not surprising news to most of us. During the same time period, Mac OS X had one critical security flaw and Red Hat Linux had two. Probably because of practice through the sheer number of critical flaws, Microsoft was the fastest to fix them at 21 days on average. Red Hat Linux took 58 days and Mac OS X took 66 days. More...[Bill Fox]

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