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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
It's also a factor that a lot of people are running Windows blindly, with no experienced administrators at the helm. This has traditionally not been the case for *nix, because of the difficulty factor, but I can see that changing. Users, both corporate and at home, need to be taught that there is no such thing as plug and play. Everything requires maintenance, or at least a cursory inspection once in a while. At least half the non-IT folks I warned about this worm a few days back ("Run Windows Update tonight, there's a nasty worm coming") responded with "How do I do that?". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPzt5cEsAmEL5Zda/EQL8UgCgkDxgAuJoI7b9ogHKWfRKrkh0KFsAoNQE YPp2QYygqqMWJFS6V6WB+bSu =yOqb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----