Many viruses require MANY, MANY machines to accomplish their foul mission. For example, every server, Mac, Windows or Linux, is vulnerable to denial of service attacks. For this, the perp requires a vast army of clients to simultaneously request (false) services to overload the target server or it's comm system's capacity. For this, the client (your) machines are the virus target to receive a program that will surreptitiously attempt access the targeted server.
Regards, Bob... --------------------------- "No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session." -- Mark Twain From: "Anders Hultman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bob Blakely: > > >1. Windows (client) has a 93.8% share of the market > >2. Mac & Linux are each about 3% of the market. > > These numbers are desktop systems; personal computers. If you look at > market shares for web servers (which I thought this thread was about, > at least at some point) you'll see that the IIS web server from > Microsoft has a 21 percent market share, while the open source web > server Apache has a 67 percent market share: > > http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html > > >Now if someone is a cracker ass out to bring folks computers to their knees > >shouting uncle so that you can claim credit (via pseudonym, of course), > >which operating system is he going to target? > > For desktop systems the answer of course is Windows. For web servers > it would by the same logic be Apache, and not Microsoft IIS, but it > seems it is not. Certainly, there have been numerous hacking attepmts > at Apache servers too, and some of them have succeeded, as the > release of security updates from the Apache group suggests. But > still, these type of things much more often happens to IIS servers > than to Apache servers. There must be a reson for that. > > >Only an fool would claim that a Mac or Linux system is inherently more safe > >than a Windows system. The number of attempted attacks on them is paltry at > >best. It's easy to say you have the fastest hotrod in town when you've never > >really raced. > > Well, for attempts to spread virues or such that is true. Paltry at > best. But for attempts to break into servers, well... Unix security > have been hard tested for a longer period of time than Windows even > have existed. > > anders > ------------------------- > http://anders.hultman.nu/ > med dagens bild och allt! > > >
