I can't chase it out of my mind...

[pookiebear]

WAtching my secure OS logs on my pix firewall. 98% of the port scans come from North Korea and China. 1 percent from Russia and the rest from everywhere else. At least going by IP's probably which are all proxied anyways but that is what I see.

[rcgreen]

I don't think they deliberately make Windows vulnerable
to viruses, but ads, well maybe...

Whose OS is it? - Antionline Forums - Maximum Security for a Connected World

[Rubberman]

Well, the core OS for Windows is pretty secure. It's just the UI (Explorer) and all the other applications that make it insecure. I worked for years at a company that wrote manufacturing execution software for semiconductor and related industries. Intel was interested in our MES to use in their new 300mm fabs and asked us to port our application servers to run on Intel processors running Microsoft NT operating systems (our clients ran on Windows machines, but the application servers, database, etc all ran on big-iron Unix systems). When I asked why they would want to run their most critical systems on an insecure OS, what they told me was that Windows itself as a headless server was quite secure (from their own auditing of the system source code), though that changed as soon as you enabled the UI. Apparently, they had some deal with MS to get the OS without a UI... We decided that it wasn't worth the investment, so to this day, Intel is the only major semiconductor manufacturer that doesn't use the MES software that I helped design and develop.