, SecurityFocus 2003-04-25
Pressed by increasingly effective anti-spam efforts, senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail are resorting to outright criminality in their efforts to conceal the source of their ill-sent missives, using Trojan horses to turn the computers of innocent netizens into secret spam zombies.
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Take the spammers down
2003-05-01
Crypt0 tronic <crypt0tronic (at) hotmail (dot) com [email concealed]>
Crypt0 tronic <crypt0tronic (at) hotmail (dot) com [email concealed]>
"Of course, the ultimate would be to get everyone off of Windows because of the BS that you purchase along with it and throw them on Linux, BSD or anything else that can't be easily thwarted. "
Where on EARTH did you get the idea that Linux is more secure than Windows? It ain't, not by a long shot. Like another poster suggested, go to cert.org and check out what's been happening with Linux. And UNIX is a "mature" system that's been around for over 3 decades.
Take a hard look at what is really happening before issuing trite solutions, willya?
Once an O/S becomes widespread and popular, the hackers pay attention to it - and start finding vulnerabilities.
When Novell was hot, people found security issues monthly. Now you hardly hear about Novell and security issues. Is that because Novell is more secure than all the other O/S's out there? Nope. It's because nobody cares enough to try hacking it - there's not enough of them to make it interesting.
And do you really think that it's possible to put UNIX on a system used by someone that is so unsophisticated that they can't even practice "safe emailing"?
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