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To: Knitebane
I really doubt you have any friends.

Your thoughts really don't have any significance to me. [Aside: I have hard time taking seriously anybody who thinks that a wedding at Medieval World is a good idea. Hey, do me a favor and post some of the pics so that others can share a few gut-busting guffaws, as well...]

And certainly anyone who runs Linux wouldn't claim to have you as a friend after hearing your obnoxious rants.

Unlike you, my self-esteem isn't tied to an OS and, therefore, I don't need to have my friends be cookie-cutter images of myself. We can agree to disagree on any number of subjects, without taking out the long knives ...

This is not a "Linux" worm.

Tell it to McAfee. This worm is listed as "Linux/Lupper.worm". It's a derivative of "Linux/Slapper". It has been found in the wild, and there's no evidence that it attacks Windows-based web servers at all.
58 posted on 11/09/2005 10:33:13 AM PST by Bush2000 (Linux -- You Get What You Pay For ... (tm)
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To: Bush2000
We can agree to disagree on any number of subjects, without taking out the long knives ...

You don't seem to be able to, considering the number of times you've had posts pulled for reasons varying from personal attacks to copyright infringement.

But that's about what one would expect of a thief anyway.

Tell it to McAfee. This worm is listed as "Linux/Lupper.worm". It's a derivative of "Linux/Slapper". It has been found in the wild, and there's no evidence that it attacks Windows-based web servers at all.

Actually, there's quite a bit of evidence that Lupper runs on FreeBSD provided that all of the requirements are met. Likewise on Win2K3 running Cygwin. But let's not let the facts get in the way of your rant, shall we?

One more time for the slow people. Linux is a kernel. This worm has nothing to do with the kernel.

This worm uses broken code in a couple of applications that usually are only seen on Linux systems, but can run on any system that has certain requirements, a Linux kernel not being one of them.

64 posted on 11/10/2005 12:32:33 AM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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