Re: Black Worm Report from Pune, India

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () well com>]

> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:54:55 -0500
>
> > On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:29:37 GMT, "Alex Shipp (elist)" said:
> > > We are getting 100s of emails infected with this W32.Nayem.E (or CME-24) 
> > > every hour hitting our various in boxes.
> > > The count is just increasing every hour since last week.
> >
> > For some reason India seems to be the biggest hit. I have no idea
> > why. Top 10 countries:

> I wonder if it's related to the fact that in a linux chat room I
> sometimes frequent, lots of people come in and need help installing
> Fedora or Ubuntu, but Indian visitors are *heavily* skewed to "Redhat
> 9 won't run on my hardware", and they are often resistant to the
> suggestion that they install FC4, or CentOS 4, or RHEL 4, depending
> on their licensing and stability requirements...
>
> Seriously - anybody know why they have the big Redhat9 fixation?

Just guessing and a stab in the dark here...  (OUCH! - got stabbed.)

Perhaps the fixation could be caused by the fact that a large number of
Indian IT types work - directly or indirectly - for US (or other
country) corporations and THOSE corporations have decided that their
products will be supported under RH 7/8/9, RHEL3/4/...  Thus, the India
IT population has a LOT of expertise in supporting RH software...

Just a thought.

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