On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:39:14AM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > > > > Actually this is almost the only reason! All this shit about root > > privileges and all that, sure but there are exploits around that kind > > of thing. The real reason is simple: why go for a difficult target > > when at best you'll infect a few thousand machines. Instead, go for > > the easy, completely unprotected targets and infect hundreds of > > thousands. > > Even if Linux/Unix systems were a majority, the infection rate would still > be a lot lower, due to diversity of configurations within the Linux sphere. > One of the dangers of "category killers" like Apache - everyone runs it. > FTP and SMTP servers, on the other hand, are many and varied,
Are they? I thought Sendmail had an ever greater share of mail servers than Apache HTTPd did web servers. wu-ftpd is quite popular too. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
