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Netcraft Survey Updated
The latest survey is out and ready for reading from Netcraft. There's some interesting commentary in regards to Code Red, and its effects on web usage. One of the things that I found most interesting was the data showing that while the number of sites hosted by Apache continues to grow, the number of physical webservers running some variety of Windows is about half of the total. Worth checking out.
they are nifty i86-worms since the shellcode they run is i86 :)
buffer overflows only works on the platform they are written for..
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yet another narrow minded person from america... sheez...
considering even the usa has at least 3 time zones (I'm sure Hawaii probably counts for a 4th) I'm nearly at the point to call you plain stupid.
No wonder your foreign policy is up the creek.
The next time someone asks if you have Norton, say yes. Geez...it's not like this is hard. If he's clueless, how is he going to verify it?
"That's Tron. He fights for the Users."
Wouldn't it be event more deadly than a simple IIS targeted one ?
No, because you can't arbitrarily execute x86 machine code on my x86-based server. You have to exploit a hole first, then get your code to execute. Since I run Apache instead of IIS, it's much harder for you to get into my system, and since I run Linux (properly configured) instead of Windows (misconfigured by a PHB who thinks the pretty dialog boxes make him a sysadmin), it's harder for you to do significant damage if you do get your code to run (because Apache setuids itself to a non-root user).
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
Netcraft isn't stupid.... see netcraft mechanics and how many active sites are there?.
IIS is NOT installed by default in W2K Pro.
Bleh!
Executive summary:
Apache 41%
Unknown 18%
IIS 13%
Netscape Enterprise 12%
* And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."
There actually is a "good" reason that even people that know better often do this on NT(aka 2k). If you're sitting there word processing, logged in as a non-admin, and someone calls you and needs, let's say, a new account made for the new hire - you must close out of your program, log out of windows, log back in, then make the account. It's a pain. Whereas on a *nix box it's as it should be, you just open an xterm, su, and make the account. It's very handy to be able to change the user in a controlled way like that in an existing session, without affecting the other stuff you are doing.
Another reason that this is done a lot is that there are a lot of NT admins out there that just don't know what they are doing. You tell them you need two accounts and they think you're trying to scam them. These people are just jokes, but if they happen to be over you in the local hierarchy there isn't often a lot you can do about them. So you do it their way, and just hope you don't get hit when it hits the fan.
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Friends don't let friends enable ecmascript.
A quick glance through Netcraft's Most requested sites over the last 30 days shows that part of Microsoft's Zone website stats.zone.com runs on Linux using Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.2.2.
Love it!
However, viewed objectively it is nonsense to make a single-user, or even multi-user, system force me to log out just to install drivers. This is poor interface design and nothing else
/* -rf isn't just for Unix.)
WRONG
For home use, your assumption is (at best) debatable - separating regular use accounts from system admin accounts is a good way to prevent viruses and trojans, and to make sure that you can't screw up the machine accidentally (rm
For corporate use, it is a neccessity. Even though our salesmen are still stuck in windows land, I praised the day we switched them from Win98 to NT/2000 - yes, we get calls from them saying that "I can't install this program", but it's a small price to pay to prevent them from installing non-work related software, or trashing the machine.