Yes Bob, but the point is that the client machines are Windows machines!
Antonio
On 7 Jul 2004, at 01:03, Bob Blakely wrote:
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...
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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
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