Any malware in FreeBSD?

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freemason

OpenBSD says it is well-secured system with no backdoors whose code goes thru deep security audit before coming into release. But it's really slow and practically unusable for me.

And what about FreeBSD`s security? For example, how many backdoors (or other malicious code) are there in kernel and/or base system? What quality checks on the code are done?

As a total paranoid I'm just wondering if FreeBSD is completely secure and usable OS to switch to.

Thanks in advance for answers.
 
On the one hand list of vulnerabilities is not big, on the other hand it contains released FreeBSD Security Advisories. But potentially there are (and I bet there really are!) many more UNRELEASED ones... �e
 
Until they are not released they don't by definition exist and anything said about them is pure speculation ;)

I should also note that the list is known security problems in the FreeBSD base operating system, things like X windowing system, desktop environments etc. are not included because they are considered ported applications and not part of the OS. They have their own vulnerability database at http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/ (also includes the vulnerabilities listed
in http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.html).

I tried to search for verifiable recent cases where FreeBSD hosts were in fact infected with malware, I only came up with questions like this on this forum:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21965
 
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