Rob Myers wrote... > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Steve Jolly <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Not sure I'm convinced - all operating systems have their vulnerabilities; > All machines have their *theoretical* vulnerabilities. Only Windows > has vast botnets built on them, or any effective malware threats > exploiting them in the wild. It may not be *vast* but here's a report of a Mac OS X Trojan enrolling a Mac into a DDoS attack http://notahat.com/posts/28 <http://notahat.com/posts/28> it seems that he was originally infected by running a compromised installer infected with the OSX.iWorkServices.A trojan see: http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/osxiworksa.html <http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/osxiworksa.html> It's also worth taking a look at the Honeypot project's analysis of a number of bots http://www.honeynet.org/node/53 <http://www.honeynet.org/node/53> many of which will run on Linux. > Unless you are a BBC reporter who has only ever used Windows, you're > on a deadline, and you don't want your report to look like it lacks > balance. In which case suddenly every OS is as good as Windows for a > change. ;-)
