Re: worms/viruses on linux

["Ian D. Stewart" <idstewart@compuvative.com>]

On 2002.09.16 00:28 David Pastern wrote:
> For those that don't subscribe to slashdot news, an interesting
> article that
> I found (doesn't necessarily related to Debian linux, but does to
> linux in
> general) :
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/15/1513255
>
> This makes it imperative to patch systems with security patches asap.
> If
> i'm under the understanding, virus/worms have been on an increase in
> the
> past 6-12 months on Linux systems.  Do people think this is because of
> the
> more widespread usage of LInux now, or something more sinister (like
> Microsoft deliberately writing viruses to attack Linux

This seems a bit too underhanded, even for MS.  Besides, if their own 
security alerts are any indication, I recon the boys at Redmond are a 
bit too busy addressing their own vulnerabilities to take time to 
exploit any that may be found in Linux...


Ian