On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Crist Clark wrote:
Attacks _are_ on Linux machines. There have been Linux worms, Lion attacked BIND, Ramen attacked rpc.statd and wu-ftpd, Slapper attached Apache, to name a few. Attacks are on Solaris, the sadmin/IIS worm (which also attacked IIS, a cross-platform worm, remember that, cool, huh?). Attacks are on FreeBSD, Scalper worm attacked Apache.
How soon people seem to forget these things.
No, I don't think people are forgetting, but what Len was originally pointing out is that Microsoft, *because* of their vast install base *needs* to take a more proactive role in producing a secure OS. And the reason you can call it a "toy" OS is that on one hand you have *BSD, Linux and friends all with an annual budget of what, maybe $1M? And on the other hand you have a multi-billion dollar *software* company. Which should churn out better software? :) Charles
To pound it home one more time, worms that attack Microsoft products are a bigger deal only because Microsoft has at least an order of magnitude greater installbase than the nearest competitor. -- Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387
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