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Servers have much fewer attack vectors.

Do you really think that a typical scenario of Windows infection is some kind of RCE in the OS? No, that's extremely rare.

Most of malware doesn't exploit any vulnerabilities in the OS. Either a user downloads and runs an infected executable, or they get infected through a bug somewhere in userland (e.g. web browser or image viewer).



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