On Oct 18, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Tim Newsham wrote:
Ok, this is just silly. If you ban windows machines from the internet you'd just get a bunch of linux and osx botnets... Botnets run on windows because they are the majority population, not because they are inherently easier to write botnets for.
Its not that simple. Windows boxes are a heckuva lot easier to populate with the software that creates botnets. They're an open infection vector.
This is much, much harder (though not impossible) with osx/linux/ freebsd/openbsd/...
