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Talkback
As stated in the article, this does seem to be a M$ sponsored report. I can count the number or reports of attacks on UNIX systems on one hand in the last few months, while there have been a plethora of CERTs sent to my email box regarding another Windows related exploit.
Admittedly, if there is any weakness on the UNIX/Linux front, I would have to say it's probably on the Linux side. This is because as far as numbers goes, UNIX is run on a multitude of processors/platforms while Linux is primarily an Intel processor domain. (Please no boos and hisses - i'm running Linux on UltraSparc II based Ultra 5.) That is real reason viruses and the like have not spawn a huge following for the UNIX world. At the machine level its very difficult (though, not entirely impossible) to write code that will run or mutate to run on dissimilar architectures.
Also, UNIX OSes were designed in a manner that is only recently being copied/mimmicked by Windows developers as far security and the access.
Windows users have far too much access to core functionality of their OSes. Regular users under UNIX normally only have access only to user level function and files. It's nearly impossiblefor a regular UNIX user to infect or corrupt the system they are logged into to the level a user on Windows could. If a Unix user does happen to get infected, its typically his/her own files and user space that are compromised.
It would be interesting to see a real report that follows the uptime of businesses servers world-wide, web-based or not and see the differences between UNIX/Linux servers versus Windows servers. If anyone knows of such a report please let me know.