On Monday 04 April 2011 21:14:51 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Jon and Hannah wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:36:07 pm you wrote: > > > I think it is going to come back and bite the Linux community if we go > > > via the line that we are immune to viruses, like Apple users have done > > > for many years. > > > > Wasn't there a virus for unix systems a few years ago that slowed almost > > the entire internet to an almost halt? > > A reasonable telling of the history: > > http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2634313/posts > > That history lacks a telling of whether these were zero-day exploits > or exploits against old versions of software which could have easily > been prevented by keeping systems up-to-date.
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