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^Cool your jets, and read my post again.

I'm stating that we can not accept a "bigger marketshare means more vulnerabilities" implication as if it was a fact of life.
Even for social malware (the "silly user downloads and tries to install anything" case), MAC and correct default policies for installation and system maintenance can mitigate the damage and I give credit to MS to have started to move in the right direction since Vista with UAC, sandboxing, etc.

I'm very well aware that IIS and MS SQL Server have greatly improved since the sad times of CodeRed and Slammer, but this doesn't invalidate my statement at all, ie that Apache was at the same time marketshare leader and more robust, again as a counterexample to the previous poster's reasoning.



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