[Xitami] A Hack Attempt or What?

[Brian {Hamilton Kelly}]

[Posting reordered: one "virus" for which Microsoft are most decided
responsible is the prevalence of top-posting, bottom-quoters, who make NO
ATTEMPT to trim irrelevant material]

In message <FNEAKJNHKIFEIAHOLMPCKEPKCCAA.JoeB@Engineer.com>
   "Qwest" writes:

> John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> > I would guess that 99.9% of the Internet's viruses and worms are
> > distributed and propagated courtesy of Microsoft.
> > 
> > The best way to protect yourself is to avoid all Microsoft products.
> 
> Your guess would be wrong.  According to the SANS institute, only 18% of my
> security issues are MS specific.  The largest majority are Unix/Linux holes
> (67%) followed by SUN, Netware, and other misc. OSs.  You see more press on
> MS products because so many people use them.  If people didn't want MS
> products then MS wouldn't exists, but then who would we have to bitch about?

Which statistic is not incompatible with John's guess, in that there are
so many more Windoze machines deployed world-wide that their 18% of
breaches result in the infection of far more individual systems than all
the bugs in other less-widely deployed systems.

And as for "the world wanting M$ products", that's only the case because
they manage to con more PHBs into buying their crapware.  Interesting to
see that The Sunday Times is now embarking on an anti-M$ crusade.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of
    distributed ignorance.  And we know and understand less while being incr-
    easingly capable."              Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs