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The last two days I've been off on a rant about Windows security. Well, it's not all peaches and cream over in Unix-ville either - check out the Sans/FBI list of top vulnerabilities. I got hit by a linux worm two years ago, and I've had to patch ssh is anticipation of a problem. On the other hand, my linux box hasn't lost track of the network randomly like my box did last night and my wife's box used to (until we switched her from dhcp to a static ip). In any event, you can't be all complacent just by not running Windows....
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