Re: What protects Unices from Virus like attacks ??

From: Gianni Mariani (gi2nospam_at_mariani.ws)
Date: 08/25/03 

Date: 24 Aug 2003 23:21:30 GMT

Alan Connor wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2003 20:07:17 GMT, Gianni Mariani <gi2nospam@mariani.ws> wrote:

>
> I think you are ignoring the fact that a LOT of money is made from so-called
>
> "accidental" security holes. Fighting viruses and worms and intrusions are
>
> BIG business. Wouldn't you like to own some Norton stock? Billy does.

While William is a capitalist, he has no need for more money.

I'm pretty sure that everyone at MS would love to see the days of
viruses behind them.

>
> Haven't you noticed that when a hole shows up that M$ has the patch out
> before the ink is even dry on the page? They KNEW it was there all along.

There is good reason for that. Go do some research. Nothing suspicious
about that.

>
> It's just another capititalist scam. And you can bet the same problems are
> going to start showing up in the commercial linux distros. You know, the ones
> where you can't tell without asking whether they are M$ or linux?

If you read my post clearly, it's already happened to Linux. Just not
in the big scale like this. It's happened to virtually all the large
user base operating systems.

Notice however, there are very few Norton like companies for Linux ?

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