In message <004001c9e38a$84e5bb50$8eb131...@com>, Symeon Breen
<[email protected]> writes
My meaning is that you would run uv on windows server behind a firewall
and the server would not have a user browsing the internet, or be
accepting and opening emails. Viruses do not just appear on a windows
box. The difference here being server systems of whatever o/s rarely
get the exposure that allows a virus, this is completely different to
desktop systems. Viruses for linux do exist but the linux desktop
market is very small so the virus market is very small.
Viruses do exist, yes, but not only is the "desktop market" small, also
there are very few vulnerabilities for a virus to exploit. I understand
one virus did spread very well, but it targeted a known vulnerability in
a COTS router.
The reason that spread was that, unlike most linux installs, routers
aren't regularly updated to remove vulnerabilities.
Cheers,
Wol
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thimble. 'What *is* he?' said Magrat. 'They're gnomes,' said Nanny. The man
lowered the thimble. 'Pictsies!' Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett 1998
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