Re: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

Tomas Larsson wrote:

So I simly don't buy that you get infected first time you
are connected.

You don't today - or you don't see it because the viruses are more stealthy and designed to spread slowly and remain undetected while permitting remote control of the machines to send spam or participate in an occasional DDOS attack. A few years back an unprotected, unpatched box would be hit by something in a couple of minutes on a random internet address. The 2003 slammer worm was probably the most dramatic of the bunch, practically knocking out the internet. It sent UDP packets out of RAM as fast as the machine could generate them.



Well, obviously I have missed it, Been on the net since mid 90's, before
Win95, using 3.11 and on DSL since end 90's.
Allways been using AW-SW though, currently NAW.

So I wonder, Why has not any of my boxes ever been infected since it is said
to be so easy to infect Windows.

Well, the answer is, I think, It is not so easy, unless you are very very
very stupid.
Unfortunately there is a lot of people out there that is very very very very
stupid, just take look on all these scams, nigeria letters etc.

Are saying these guys are stupid?
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=49857

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