[LUAU] Its time to simply ban Windoze machines from the Internet
Peter Besenbruch
prb at lava.net
Wed Oct 18 13:03:08 PDT 2006
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.
Linux has some advantages when it comes to serving in a botnet, such as
increased stability and more reliable networking. Perhaps Solaris would
be even better.
On a more serious note, it's refreshing to do my weekly updates, and
know that all my vulnerable software is getting updated. No anti-virus,
and no anti-spyware, it's nice.
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