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£10,000 Prize for Linux Virus Challenge Re-Issued

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the take-two dept.

mutantcamel writes "Eddie Bleasdale, the director of NetProject has been offering £10,000 to the first hacker to infect his Linux machine with a virus for the last two years, and so far no one has hit the jackpot. He's re-announced his challenge to virus writers following a Gartner report which told IT depts. not to trust MS server software because of recent worm attacks on their servers, but a Microsoft exec said yesterday that the hugely successful worm attacks were due to 'tardy' sysadmins."

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  1. This is Stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Keep in mind that default Redhat installation ships with many bugs that all need to be patched. Saying someone can't hack this kids linux box is a reason not to trust MS is just plain stupid. If IT dept. would patch their software and not open idiot attachments you couldnt infect MS BOXES EITHER. Its all about PATCHING, no matter which OS you use.

    Think about it, most MS bugs had patches before they went widescale. If you had taken time to install these patches you wouldn't have been infected. In addition, don't open EXE's that ask for your advice and its extremely hard to infect an NT system as well.

    You cant compare an upgraded and constantly patched linux box to a default Win2k installation.