What operating system makes up about 90% of the desktop systems out there? How smart are these average computer users? Do they practice good security, or do they plug into their broadband and read emails all day? Where do most viruses/trojans appear?

Winbloze users are usually not security intelligent, they are like sheep, most people are at one time or another. Winbloze systems are highly infected with outlook and trojan email viruses. Giving these systems the abilities/tools/'tank-like power' of unix variants with 'raw sockets' is not safe for security.... the potential for a high number of excellent zombie soldiers for DDOS attacks would be greatly increased.

Large # of sheep + insecure OS w/ raw packets
= majority of the net becomming possible zombies for DDOS.

I agree with the other statements here. Who is the sys admin of a Windoze9x box? do they even know how to 'do their job' ... it's actually NOT their job.

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