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Originally posted by Roger K
I still can't believe that they haven't fired some senior people in that company.
They charge like £200 for a copy of Windows and make the worst OS known to man.
I've lost count of the number of large-scale exploits M$ systems have had in the last year.
What a load of BS.
...and they complain that people hate them and that Open Source is their biggest threat...damn right it is. 
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The main reason you tend to see more MS exploits is because hackers / script kiddies, etc target this OS more. This is because it is mainstream.
Linux has some pretty major exploits as well (don't believe the hype that it is secure, etc). After installing Mandrake and running their update utility there were at least 50Mb of security updates avail. Do a search on Google for Linux exploits - for those who are too lazt take a look here
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/
Should Linux become the mainstream home user OS then the number of serious exploits / viruses / trojans will explode.
Secondly a fix for this exploit has been out for some time.