From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 1 15:16:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4031137B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f71MGQt04918; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:16:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:16:26 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Patrick Simon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: just how many known viruses are there for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010801171626.A137@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010801221246.52013.qmail@web14608.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010801221246.52013.qmail@web14608.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Aug 01), Patrick Simon said: > To whom it may concern, > > I am wondering (in order to convince my boss) about the feasibility > of using FreeBSD as a webserver instead of Win2000 running IIS. > > In particular, I was wondering just how many known viruses there are > for FreeBSD. Better to compare the number of IIS vs Apache exploits (if you decide to run Apache). Afaik there are either zero or one known FreeBSD viruses. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message