Daeron <daeron@demon.net> wrote in message news:<c2ft2g$1t2ogn$2@ID-168140.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> Microsoft security - no longer an oxymoron?
>
> George Heuston Mar 04 2004 http://tinyurl.com/25ayx
>
> .. Windows 95 was designed to be totally open to let users connect to
> other systems. The security kernel of the Windows NT server software was
> written before the internet, and the Windows Server 2003 software was
> written before buffer overflows became a frequent target of recent attacks"
>
> "almost all the Net-based attacks on Microsoft's software focus on
> portions of the operating system that can talk to older versions of its
> software -- so-called "legacy" attacks"
>
> ".. only once has its distributed product suffered a cyber attack in
> which an unknown and unpatched vulnerability was exploited"
>
> http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus...9610219680.xml

Did you just say MS Windows was created as an insecure OS and has not been
made secure yet?
I thought so.
Regards...Dan.