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More Attacks on Linux than Windows
the special sauce writes "This vnunet.com article discusses the trend of attacks this year as compared to last. Over all, according to mi2g, attacks are on the rise. However, though attacks on Linux systems are up, attacks on Windows based systems have actually dropped dramatically when compared to last year. If the trend continues, by the end of the year, attacks on Linux systems may surpass attacks on Windows systems."
the attacks on amiga boxen where at record lows
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The real question to ask is, "how many of these attacks are successful as compare to attacks on Windows?"
Fight Spammers!
Are scriptkidiots lookig for real chalenges? (=
No, that would be "getting laid".
Damn. And I was going for funny. *shrug* ;p
Hmmm.....maybe. But as I recall, somebody had a hacking contest with default installs of Mandrake and SuSE, and nobody rooted the servers. I think that noobs would have to go out of their way a little to make their system insecure.
Contrast that to.....IIRC Extremetech, which set up a Win2k and IIS server, and had it infected with Code Red Twice within like 26 minutes of connecting it to the web and downloading updates from Microsoft.
Nuh uh, nuh uh, not true!
joker@thefarm 126% grep 'winnt\/system32\/cmd.exe' www-error_log | wc -l
10209
Wow...I wonder who the other 1,619 attacks were against? Anybody here willing to own up?
In the 24 posts listed on your user info page, 17 of them mention you went to MIT. Are you sure the reason for this post wasn't just to tell everyone that. Again.
If this trend continues, then it logically follows that there will be no more Windows servers at some point in the future.
Also if current trends continue, the number of transistors in a microprocessor will exceed the number of subatomic particles in the universe in 360 years.