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Interesting observation. Doesn't correlate with user prudence, though

honeymonster 25th Aug 2010

@NonZealot

The vast, *vast* majority of malware is still installed by users through social engineering schemes and are not tied to any weakness in operating systems.

As long as we want the user - and not the vendor - to be in control of the desktop system, we'll have to live with the wetware being the most vulnerable component. By far.

Some fanatics who are pushing alternative operating systems to satisfy their misguided late-adolescent desire for feeling part of something important will have you believe that proliferation of malware is somehow exclusive to Windows.

They are of course ignoring the fact that most (by wide margin) of compromised servers are running Linux. And on servers you don't have wetware trying to install codecs downloaded from pr0n sites. What does that say about relative security of the OSes, once you take the wetware out of the equation?