drew,
one should be carefull when quoting product usage numbers.
our SED (Social Engineering Department) advised us you may get a monetary
analogy.
our NAND (Numeric Analyziz and Numerology Department) was kind enough to do
unbreakable research and came with the following:
[1]
http://www.faculty
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Barry Fitzgerald wrote:
> Matthew Murphy wrote:
>
> >Actually, you're both wrong, in my opinion. :-)
> >
> >Overall market share has some to do with the success of worm propagation,
> >but the real problem is market share diversity at all levels. IIS is
> >plagued by worms bec
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:55:17PM -0700, Drew Copley wrote:
> There has been a great deal of talk about people
> switching to Mozilla because of this recent Internet
> Explorer issue.
>
> This is a serious misunderstanding about security
> that comes about because of people's ignorance and
> bec
"Barry Fitzgerald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthew Murphy wrote:
> For instance, we can safely say that approx. 25% of all webservers are
> GNU/Linux and the vast majority of those run Apache. Of those,
> approximately 50% are the latest version of Red Hat (this is an
> assumption, but I thi
Matthew Murphy wrote:
Actually, you're both wrong, in my opinion. :-)
Overall market share has some to do with the success of worm propagation,
but the real problem is market share diversity at all levels. IIS is
plagued by worms because one piece of code targeting whatever version of IIS
is widel
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> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] (IE/SCOB) Switching Software
> Because of Bugs: Some Facts About Software and Security bugs
>
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Georgi Guninski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, July
> your long post seems like an advanced FUD to me.
>
> according to your reasoning there should be a lot of worms and exploits
for
> apache because of its market share. fact is ii$ is plagued by worms and
> exploits though it has a small market share.
Actually, you're both wrong, in my opinion. :-
> -Original Message-
> From: Georgi Guninski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 12:41 AM
> To: Drew Copley
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] (IE/SCOB) Switching Software
> Because of Bugs: Some Facts About Softw
your long post seems like an advanced FUD to me.
according to your reasoning there should be a lot of worms and exploits for
apache because of its market share. fact is ii$ is plagued by worms and
exploits though it has a small market share.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:55:17PM -0700, Drew Copley w
losure] (IE/SCOB) Switching Software
> Because of Bugs: Some Facts About Software and Security bugs
>
>
>
> The mere fact that mozilla or firefox or netscape are not
> core components
> of the windows OS is actuallky reason enough to choose to change
> browsers, despite the b
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Barry Fitzgerald
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:07 PM
> To: Drew Copley
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] (IE/SCOB) Switching Software
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Barry Fitzgerald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:07 PM
> To: Drew Copley
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] (IE/SCOB) Switching Software
> Because of Bugs: Some Facts About Softw
-
> From: Ron DuFresne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:14 PM
> To: Drew Copley
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] (IE/SCOB) Switching Software
> Because of Bugs: Some Facts About Software a
The mere fact that mozilla or firefox or netscape are not core components
of the windows OS is actuallky reason enough to choose to change
browsers, despite the bad hype and bug researchers with a thing against m$
and all the rest of the gunk.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
~
Drew Copley wrote:
Conclusion: Mozilla may be better. I think there is some strong
chance of that. But only marginally. It has had bugs. It has a lot
of features, which means a lot of potential for security issues. They
have kept their browser more conservative then Microsoft has kept
Internet Expl
There has been a great deal of talk about people
switching to Mozilla because of this recent Internet
Explorer issue.
This is a serious misunderstanding about security
that comes about because of people's ignorance and
because they "believe the hype" but do not look at
the details.
An example:
h
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