Skuzzy... did HTC get hit by...

[mrsid2]

Is it just me, or does it seem to others here that the quality of software in general as far as bugs go is MUCH worse now than it was a few years ago?

I think it's just that IT has gone mainstream and problems have become more public. There are also much much more retarded kids that have nothing better to do than download abusive scripts and run them. OR get infected without knowing it and becoming a slave in a DoS network.

I think overall things have gone to a better direction, but there still is such a long way to go.

[blackfalcon4]

LOL
MS gets hit by the worm. Seems they didn't patch their own servers
MS gets hit too

[Vulcan]

True skuzzy but I get a little tired of the whine when people compare apples and oranges (such as the Linux based appliances). And especially when people jump all over MS when theres hardly a squeek abiout the stuff hitting Linux servers. I remember when the Red Code thing hit, at the same time I was getting twice as many probes for the Lion Worm yet nobody knew what it was.

I just wish the media would paint the whole picture is all

[bloom25]

Vulcan, I doubt the media even knows what Linux is...

Linux has its share of security flaws, but considering the source code is freely available it stands to reason that any potential flaws can be easily found and exploited.  By the same token, they are easier to repair as well.  Like Unix, Linux also has a MUCH more effective permissions system in place which limits what a program can and cannot do (superior to Unix actually).  A major flaw in Windows is that since Internet Explorer is integrated into the heart of the operating system, any flaws in that program can be used to change any file an attacker chooses.  I cannot see how such a system can ever be made totally secure (or stable for that matter).