>From the network side of things, an OS X box shows no ports open with a vanilla nmap scan. A WinXP box (standard install, participating in an Active Directory) shows 5 ports open, netbios services, 1025/tcp and 5000/tcp with a vanilla nmap scan.
What does this tell us? Not much other than Apple was smart enough to leave the networks services turned off after the installation. >From an application view, both systems come loaded with lots of bits. Plenty of potential for trouble... Ben Vaughan Systems Engineer, Engineering Computing Support Services 210 Marston 515 294-1629, Iowa State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Kremer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Apple vs. MS - more secure? > > > Just curious what you all think about the new Mac OS X. Which is more > secure out-of-box; Windows XP or Mac OS X? > > > -Justin > > >
