On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 11:36, Eric Huff wrote: > So, how many of the famous worms/virii *predominantly* targeted ms > servers as opposed to desktop computers? > > It seems Nimda and SQL Slammer Worm did. Sobig was mostly home > users.
Although an attack aimed solely at servers can do some damage, generally, attacks aimed at desktops can cause even more damage overall - because they're going to flood the "servers" with traffic and crap that otherwise ain't there...so in saturating the network with bad traffic, you're going to end up taking down a feeble server - M$ or otherwise - then again, mostly the M$ servers are the most fragile. > The reason i ask is that when i argue to people that it's insecurity > and not popularity that get's MS in trouble, i can't use the ones > that directly affect desktop, since those are more popular. (even > if the same code is in a server, the # of comps is still higher...) > > eric M$ haven't changed any of the base code - they're famous for "patching" and putting bandages on things - revamping old code to make it either look new or act new - same code, though. That's yet another reason why it's taking so long for Longhorn to get out - they're seriously having to dig through the code base to TRY to make it better - but as each day moves on, the general public is getting a bit more tee'd off at Microsoft - so within the next six months, they're going to have to rewrite some more of the code to cater to the public. It really won't matter, however, because the basis for all M$ OS's is going to remain the same, and going to remain insecure by nature. Unless they chuck out every bit of old code and rewrite from the very beginning, they're going to constantly and consistently be the least secure OS in the marketplace. stephen kuhn - owner ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them.
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