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RE: How much longer..


From: Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:08:29 -0700


At 12:53 PM 8/13/2003 -0500, Ejay Hire wrote:
I don't care what defective operating system a worm uses.

Yes. Lets recall that the first worm on the net was a sendmail worm, and attacked UNIX systems. I'm no friend of Windows either, but a little humility is in order. Windows is attacked because it is ubiquitous, not because it is vulnerable. If the whole world ran Linux, the attacks would be on Linux machines.

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