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You're ignoring that most Linux distros come with better defaults, i.e. no open ports. Reducing the attack surface is an important part in keeping the OS safe.
by yAnonymous 10y ago
You're ignoring that most Linux distros come with better defaults, i.e. no open ports. Reducing the attack surface is an important part in keeping the OS safe. Windows is remarkably bad in that regard.
- mavhc 10y agoI had a look at Windows 10, by default, assuming you clicked Private for the network connection, there are no ports that are open for any program to use. There are 33 rules for the All profile, 18 for the private profile, some duplicates, each of which specifies what local program is allowed to receive data: 9 connect to Modern Windows apps, 1 for ICMPv4, 12 for ICMPv6, 1 for IGMP, 1 for ISATAP, 12 for TCP, Cast to device, IPHTTPS, Network Discovery, WiDi. 15 UDP: 2 for Cast to device, 2 for DHCP, 1 for Teredo, 1 for Delivery Optimization, 1 for mDNS, 7 for network discovery, 1 for miracast.
- tjoff 10y agoWindows comes with its firewall turned on by default since XP SP2, most popular distros doesn't do that even today. Windows 10 doesn't even respond to ping by default (which is a pita).
- Boubouar 10y agoNot sure about other distros but opensuse comes with a pretty strict firewall out of the box. My logic says that this is probably common practice for many general-use distros.
- tjoff 10y agoUbuntu and debian does not. Well, they are installed and debian is enabled too (but defaults to allow all traffic).
- cuillevel3 10y agoopenSUSE uses a password protected root account (shared secret), doesn't use ASLR and doesn't even run apparmor...