Don't forget the Linux and Mac users also as hackers are attacking these platforms more these days.
But the attacks are aproached from the server side to the client side in the case of P2P Windows NT 4, 2000 and 2003 servers. The internet hosts Apache servers with a cluster of Linux and Windows boxes. The most common platform that does get attacked is Windows becuase almost 97% of the world uses some version of Windows all the way from versions 95 to 2003. Marc Sims Technician I Technology Services Prince George's Community College 301 Largo Rd. Largo, MD 20774-2199 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, May 03, 2005 >>> On 3 May 2005 at 10:16, Rick Glazier wrote: > As soon as something like that runs on Windows-embedded... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bernie Cosell" > > Since we already have viruses that can attack/compromise cell phones, I > > wonder > > when we'll see the first virus to attack/compromise an ipod..:o) You're right.. I keep forgetting that cell phones run "Windows/CP" and that all those other operating systems on hardware large and small are immune to attack. [more seriously, the point is that the systems that show up as being vulnerable are, by and large, the ones that attract the interest of the attackers. The false-security many folk think they have is oftten more a matter of their not being an interesting-enough target than their having any real additional security. Any sufficiently complicated device [e.g., an ipod..:o)] that is an attractive-enough target will undoubtedly find that it is less secure than it looked like it was. [as firefox users are discovering] /bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
