Originally Posted by
UALOneKPlus
Yea I have a hard time trying to decide who is worse, Adobe or MS. I try to avoid using Adobe software if I can help it now. Non-Adobe software is the way to go if possible, since Adobe software is bloated and full of holes. I especially hate flash, since it can be used as a backdoor, and also has its own cookies that most people don't know about.
Hmm, I guess you can give up flash if you no longer want to visit Youtube or the N other sites that use flash on the internet. You could browse the net in lynx, I'm sure its quite secure
If you think that most open source software is coded secure by design, I would highly doubt it. Some of the worst security vulnerabilities come from kiddies hacking up code they know nothing about, ie. if you look at all the exploitable Joomla modules.
In Windows 7/Vista Microsoft is going the right direction in restricting users by default and making them authenticate to go into admin mode. However most users don't understand anything about it, and if someone was surfing for porn on ubuntu and they were asked to for the root pass to play a "video" they would probably just type it in and the whole machine will become infected anyways. Cleaning up rootkits on linux is not easier than windows.