On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:41:16PM +1100, Mike MacCana wrote: > 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.
A few years ago, certainly. These days, I come across postfix and qmail setups (and bloody windows IMail) more often than I see sendmail. No doubt it's still quite popular, but I don't think sendmail would have the same share of mail servers as Apache has of web servers. And as for FTP servers, I don't interact with them much any more, but I don't think I've seen a wu-ftpd in a while. And anyone who runs it gets what's coming to them. <g> - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
