The SANS Institute disagrees with you

November 06, 2007 04:33PM
The most recent 'survival time' rating I could find was 2004 and the Windows XP machines lasted 174 minutes on average. Before service pack 2, it was more like 12 minutes. <br> <br>If the default install of iis/Windows was so secure, you wouldn't get paid so much money. <br> <br>I'm not saying *nix is even the answer, opening ports when you don't have basic security training is very dangerous. That's true regardless of the OS. I don't know why you bothered to bring it up.
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Getting a server accessible on the internet

Leprechaun 1587 November 03, 2007 03:42AM

Port Forwarding and ISP restrictions

Rade 1039 November 03, 2007 04:18AM

Oh, also

Rade 1032 November 03, 2007 04:21AM

None taken :)

Leprechaun 998 November 03, 2007 05:21AM

Statistically speaking...

Rade 1013 November 03, 2007 05:59AM

Yeah me too

Leprechaun 979 November 03, 2007 04:28PM

That's not even vaguely true but ok.

Death_Claw 1037 November 06, 2007 04:23AM

The SANS Institute disagrees with you

Rade 1087 November 06, 2007 04:33PM

Because, having worked with hundreds of windows machines over a decade...

Death_Claw 1054 November 07, 2007 03:49AM

Install Bitdefender, its $60, then use port forwarding.

Death_Claw 1031 November 06, 2007 04:34AM



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