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~BD~ wrote:

> Quote:-
>
> "Bad guys have created a botnet of Linux Web servers. In a way, that's
> even more frightening than regular botnets of compromised Windows
> PCs. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask if this is the end for Linux's
> claim to be more secure than Windows; or is it just a load of old
> hokum?"
>
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/14723...iscovery_worry

Further quoting:
"All of the boxes examined so far have run the Apache webserver on
various distributions of Linux."

So ... is it a Linux failure? Or an Apache problem? Apples/oranges.

Reading further from the More link, others are speculating that
individual shared web host accounts were being hacked by intercepting
FTP passwords. And that's not a Linux problem.

[I snipped your test.here group, where your post if off-topic.]

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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:25:18 -0400, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
<> wrote:

>~BD~ wrote:
>
>> Quote:-
>>
>> "Bad guys have created a botnet of Linux Web servers. In a way, that's
>> even more frightening than regular botnets of compromised Windows
>> PCs. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask if this is the end for Linux's
>> claim to be more secure than Windows; or is it just a load of old
>> hokum?"
>>
>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/14723...iscovery_worry
>
>Further quoting:
>"All of the boxes examined so far have run the Apache webserver on
>various distributions of Linux."
>
>So ... is it a Linux failure? Or an Apache problem? Apples/oranges.
>
>Reading further from the More link, others are speculating that
>individual shared web host accounts were being hacked by intercepting
>FTP passwords. And that's not a Linux problem.
>
>[I snipped your test.here group, where your post if off-topic.]

Your "s," Sir. <hands it to you>

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