On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:55:21PM +0100, DrewMartin wrote:They have, it's just that they haven't been very successful. There have been a few worms which exploited vulnerabilities in Linux servers - it's just that, thanks to the wonders of Open Source openness, these vulnerabilities were patched immediately (sometimes even before the worm came out). There is also the factor that the average Linux sysadmin is a lot more savvy than a point-and-click NT sysadmin.
It is a well know fact that the script kiddies who write these
insidious pieces of code only do so, because Windows is such a wide spread
OS in the world out there.If/when Linux(or Macs) become the OS of choice for
the world at large,then the will start writing viri for these OS's too.
I don't think this is a well known fact.
Linux runs the majority of servers in the world--why haven't the
script-kiddies been targeting Linux servers?
Sir Robin
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