Just becuase an OS will have exploits does not mean that they are are the same level of insecurity. Linux has had plently of buffer overruns, yet most of the dangerous ones involve sitting on the console to actually take advantage of them.

Like if you take a look at MS products they leave gaping holes which you can drive through. Do you think that it is coincedence that all the major computer virus's that periodically swarm through like the locust are "Built" around using microsoft technology, to exploit MS products.

You want childish, get our head out of the sand and face the facts, Windows is a horribly insecure product. Just because I don't run out and compile my own operating system does not mean I have to ignore the problems and issues that MS brings to the table.

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