[LUAU] Its time to simply ban Windoze machines from the Internet

[Jim Thompson]

On Oct 18, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Tim Newsham wrote:

> Ok, this is just silly.  If you ban windows machines from the  
> internet you'd just get a bunch of linux and osx botnets...   
> Botnets run on windows because they are the majority population,  
> not because they are inherently easier to write botnets for.

Its not that simple.   Windows boxes are a heckuva lot easier to  
populate with the software that creates botnets.   They're an open  
infection vector.

This is much, much harder (though not impossible) with osx/linux/ 
freebsd/openbsd/...