RE: Which Windows OS is Safest

["MARTIN M. Bénoni" <benoni_martin () hotmail com>]

Humm...I cannot understand hom people can still talk about NT when there are 
at least W2K boxes since a while, and Win2K3! NT has got a lot of bugs (6 
SPs!! ), and I think at least a whole which cannot be patched! Why NT is 
still in admin's minds???


> From: Michael Carroll <CarrollM () wclc com>
> To: 'Artturi Lehtiö' <artturi () vidafalt com>,"Mailing List, Security Basics" 
> <security-basics () securityfocus com>
> Subject: RE: Which Windows OS is Safest
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:07:23 -0500
>
> Safest is more of a situational point of view.  Depending on the
> applications,(uses), that the systems will be used for and what
> functionality is required.  From my experience, WindowsNT 4.0 (and Service
> Pack 6a) allowed our organization to implement stable, reliable and secure
> machines.  Of course you will have to harden the OS by disabling
> non-essential services within NT, but a quick search on Google or MS's
> support site will provide you with a variety of hardening guides to
> accomplish this task.
>
> HTH.
>
> Michael
>
> carrollm () wclc com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Artturi Lehtiö [mailto:artturil () yahoo co uk]
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:16 AM
> To: Mailing List, Security Basics
> Subject: Which Windows OS is Safest
>
>
>  I would like to know what is regarded as the safest Windows OS as I need 
> to
> set up a few new computers for system administrators to use and I would 
> like
> to use a Windows OS as the system administrators who will be using the
> computers have only experience with Windows. I know that the wisest thing 
> to
> do wouold be to teach them how to use another OS like OpenBSD but it isn't
> possible.
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  Artturi Lehtiö
>  artturi.lehtio () vidafalt com
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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