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Are you kidding? My public facing VMs get ssh brute force attacks like 10 times a minute, that's not counting http attacks, vulnerability scanners, etc etc. all of the internet is running on Linux.
OK, maybe I'm wrong. Why do you think Linux is more secure than Windows (taking into account user-land issues, mind you)?