Security FUD In Action: Not Windows’ Fault, Nope, Not at All

“The game of giving Microsoft a free pass on security flaws
continues, despite the rapid growth of the world wide botnet and
more Windows exploits roaming the planet than ever.

“‘100 potential attacks per second blocked in 2009’ fails to
mention Windows, though it names various individual malwares such
as Conficker, Hydraq, Sality.AE virus, the Brisv Trojan and the
SillyFDC worm. It doesn’t even use their full names: W32.Sality.AE,
W32.SillyFDC, W32.downadup (Conficker). W32 is “Windows
32-bit.”

“It fails to identify vulnerable “PDF viewers” as Adobe Reader,
and does not differentiate browser exploits by platform. The #1
unanswered security question from users is do Firefox exploits
affect non-Windows users? I have yet to get a good answer to
this.”

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