RE: Which Windows OS is Safest

[Guybrush Threepwood <domain.admin () online ie>]

Quoting Kelly Martin <kel () securityfocus com>:

> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Guybrush Threepwood wrote:
>
> > There is a Windows OS u didn't mention. It is impossible to break into
> > it via the net. It cannot be affected by any trojans, viruses, malicious
> code
> > and such. It's called Windows 3.11.
>
> Actually, some of us had our first browsing experience back in 1993 on
> Windows 3.11 with Winsock and the old NCSA Mosaic browser. :) I still
> remember that old Toshiba laptop I had back then. This system would no
> doubt be vulnerable to one or two buffer overflow vulnerabilities, don't
> you think? And yes that thing had quite its share of viruses that could be
> downloaded off the net, too.

Mosaic you say? How about lynx. Who needs pretty pictures.

About buffer overflows I'm not sure. I'll go check bugtraq archives now.
I don't recollect seeing 3.11 on their list.

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