Re: SQL Server Worm devastates Microsoft Corporate networks!

On a related note:

http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/201934.htm

SK

Kent Paul Dolan wrote:

>tom_hummel_at_hotmail.com (Thomas R. Hummel) wrote:
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>>Do you know why you don't hear these stories about Apple or LINUX?
>>Because NO ONE CARES. If one of the five companies out there who
>>actually run on LINUX get hacked, no one cares. Hackers concentrate
>>their efforts on Windows and other Microsoft products because that's
>>what most people use and that gives them the best chance of finding
>>someone who isn't taking the precautions that they should be taking.
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>Which, of course, is the strongest possible argument against letting a
>monopolist like Microsoft continue to exist _at all_. If the market
>were divided up among the twenty or so competing OS vendors that a
>non-monopolistic market would engender, every link that crossed an OS
>boundary would be another natural stagnation point for virii; it is
>the ubiquitousness of "M$ at the other end" that makes messes like the
>current one possible.
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>xanthian.
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Received on Wed Jan 29 2003 - 00:56:01 CST