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lithium is right... read the article that I mentioned in my previous post (it links to Slashdot but there is a link to the actual article there, which is pretty easy to read and you dont need to be a Windows programming guru to understand it).
Basically, the entire messaging system, the very core of the Win32 API, is flawed beyond belief and incredibly easy to exploit. And there's nothing Microsoft can do about it because they've built operating systems and tons of programs and written tons of code on top of it. So no matter how many "line-by-line" reviews Bill Gates orders his programmers to do, these exploits and ones that are associated with them are never going to go away. And this is the market leader!
It boggles the mind, really.
*edit*: Hey, look at the news that just came out today! Great!
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lithium-Very nice post but there is something you forgot to mention. That is to say: There are plenty of security holes in applications for linux and other *nix based systems. The _important_ thing though is that these security holes are still usually not nearly as bad as windows holes and, they are fixed almost immediately (usually no more then a week or so at most) after they are found (compared to months for microsoft and their patches)
