>
> As long as people run Windows, there will be a virus and
> trojan problem.
>
And Unix is immune to Trojans and worms?
With attacks getting more sophisticated I can see a day when an email would
arrive and the MUA would be attacked via a buffer overflow in the header,
use a local host exploit to root the box and then spread from there. With
the high band pass available to more and more locations I can see such an
attack pulling along multiple megabytes of payload to even allow cross
platform attack code to be included.
A good attack agent could spread itself using SMTP, RPC, FTP and IRC all at
the same time.
> I find it astonishing that people don't sue Microsoft for this.
> A whole industry thrives on Microsoft's bad code quality.
>
Be careful what you wish for. Once the lawsuits start the Open Source world
is getting deeper pockets and therefore becoming a target.
