This has to be incorrect. My Linux friends assure me that, with their zillions of eyeballs constantly scanning the open source code, Linux can't be targeted by worms and viruses...
1 posted on
11/07/2005 6:00:28 PM PST by
Bush2000
To: All
Can somebody please explain why there are always more vulnerabilities found for UNIX/Linux systems than Windows in these bulletins?
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/
This is some kind of mistake, right?
2 posted on
11/07/2005 6:03:40 PM PST by
Bush2000
(Linux -- You Get What You Pay For ... (tm)
To: Bush2000
I wonder how long it took Microsoft to write it? ;-)
3 posted on
11/07/2005 6:04:09 PM PST by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Bush2000
Looks like a web service bug, not the base OS.
Your friends are correct.
4 posted on
11/07/2005 6:05:02 PM PST by
Michael Goldsberry
(an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
To: Bush2000
"vulnerabilities in Web server software is attacking Linux systems"
Yes, it's attacking systems, not some web service.
Wouldn't it be easier and less challenging to write code (worms) to an open source system?
To: Bush2000
Unbelieveable. You have friends?
18 posted on
11/07/2005 7:20:05 PM PST by
FLAMING DEATH
(And now, for something completely different: www.donaldlancow.com)
To: Bush2000
with their zillions of eyeballs constantly scanning the open source code, Linux can't be targeted by worms and viruses... Has anyone on this board said this? or is this just an attempt to mistate the position of people here?
28 posted on
11/08/2005 4:50:23 AM PST by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: Bush2000
My Linux friends assure me that, with their zillions of eyeballs constantly scanning the open source code, Linux can't be targeted by worms and viruses... I really doubt you have any friends. And certainly anyone who runs Linux wouldn't claim to have you as a friend after hearing your obnoxious rants.
Ok, for the record...
1) This is not a "Linux" worm. (No shipping Linux distro is vulnerable to this)
2) This is not an Apache worm.(Simply installing Apache won't make you vulnerable to this)
3) This is not a PHP worm. (Simply installing PHP won't make you vulnerable to this)
4) This appears to be a worm that affects a couple of PHP extensions used by a select few applications, the two most major of which were patched months ago. (AWStats and Drupal)
If you install Apache, PHP and AWStats on a Windows box, it's also vulnerable to this exploit. Does that make it a Windows worm?
57 posted on
11/08/2005 11:37:39 PM PST by
Knitebane
(Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
To: Bush2000
I can't help but wonder if you're on your menstrual cycle. You're quiet for a while, then all of a sudden you rear your head, posting threads
only to incite, apparently begging for a stomping.
How you've lasted so long is beyond me. Perhaps it's therapeutic having a whipping boy at the Freep, so I thank you for volunteering. 
59 posted on
11/09/2005 1:12:44 PM PST by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
To: All
LOL who put "gatesbot2000" into the keywords?
LOL
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