My 2c:-)
Could we imagine a world with out hackers, who didn't notify us of these
exploits!
I could, the internet would not be were it is now. Secondly there is
more hackers on Windows than there is that use *nix. So of course the
windows platform will be attacked a lot more looking for exploits.
Don't think for a moment that *nix can't be hacked, they can. But they
are more secure than its counter parts, and such you get the script
junkies or wannabees trying to find computers who have not patched there
system rather than looking for actual new hacks! So this is where
windows becomes flavour of the month!
Regards,
Andrew Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Falloon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2001 5:42 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Check out what Gartner is recommending. Drop IIS!
Maybe a little OT, but my 2c.
I wouldn't call that stupid at all.
Consider all of the attacks aimed squarely at IIS in the past few
months.
It's only going to increase. I've had personal experience with being
hacked.
I run 2 internal IIS development boxes for CF and an internal hack
replaced
*ALL* index.htm, default.htm files in all folders in the web serving
directory. Lucky more files where cfm.
I'm not a 'server' admin (by title) but I can thank MS for this. If they
released a tighter web server with less vunerabilities maybe there would
be
fewer viruses/hacks that could penetrate. People shouldn't need to have
to
patch every week.
Doesn't that fact indicate that just *maybe* the software itself is
pretty
shaky?
Consider this quote from the article,
"Gartner remains concerned that viruses and worms will continue to
attack
IIS until Microsoft has released a completely rewritten, thoroughly and
publicly tested, new release of IIS,"
Rewritten. That would be a good idea. Try to imagine a pair of pants
with as
many 'security' patches as is and will continue to be required for IIS.
I'd
say the pants would be more patches than pants.
Just a thought,
Benjamin
PS maybe apache would be a good alternative.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rey Bango" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:03 AM
Subject: OT: Check out what Gartner is recommending. Drop IIS!
> Now, I've always found Gartner to sway in a particular direction based
in
> the wind changes and the phases of the moon but this recommendation is
just
> plain stupid. Check it out:
>
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7294516.html
>
> Rey Bango
>
>
>
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