Shawn Tan wrote:
> And if that's the case, most of
> the world's web servers run Linux + Apache.. Shouldn't there be more
> worms or such created to take these machines down??

No, since those machines don't have dumb users on them.

It's generally the user GUI applications that let virii in, ususally aided
by badly chosen defaults and user's who are totally flattered when the third
cousin's uncle's grandson of the widow of the Nigerian minister of oil has
asked *them* to help get $20M out of a frozen bank account, for a fee of
$2M.  Wow, I could retire on that for just a filling out a few papers!

Linux hasn't been plagued by worms and such as much because 1) there are a
lot fewer Linux installations, and 2) Linux users are still much more an
elite group, much like computer users in the 1980's.  Back then you actually
had to *know* something to use a computer.  Nowadays any moron can use a
computer, and they are going to run Windows.


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