On 7 Oct 2007, at 20:53, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > Dave Land wrote: >> >> Of course, this worm depends on the idiocy of people who open >> attachments in emails from people they don't know. >> >> Those people should have their computers confiscated, the hard drives >> erased and Linux installed to be given to people who are worthy of >> them. > > I thought so some time ago. After using Linux for about 7 years, > and knowing > its vulnerabilities, I am glad that Linux is still a minority OS, > such that > evil virusmakers don't bother to attack Linux.
They do attack Linux servers because pwning a server is more valuable than a desktop machine. There are enormous numbers of attacks on servers attempting to use vulnerabilities in misconfigured systems as anyone who runs a server and looks at the logfiles can attest. Here's a few bad requests from the logs of a (BSD hosted) website I run. /phpmyadmin/main.php /pma/main.php /admin/main.php /admin/phpmyadmin/main.php /mysql/main.php /horde/readme /myadmin/main.php /phpmyadmin2/main.php /admin/phpmyadmin2/main.php /phpmychat/chat/messagesl.php3 /mysqladmin/main.php /webadmin/main.php /admin/myadmin/main.php /phpmyadmin-2.6.3-rc1/main.php /admin/sqladmin/main.php /scgi-bin/awstats/awstats.pl /admin/db/main.php /admin/php-my-admin/main.php /php-my-admin/main.php /admin/mysql/main.php /websql/main.php /admin/phpmyadmin-2.6.3-pl1/main.php /admin/phpmyadmin-2.2.6/main.php /phpmyadmin-2.6.3-pl1/main.php /phpmyadmin-2.2.6/main.php -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." - Bertrand Russell _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
