From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 9:17:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D00D37B409 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:17:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f7KGDsL24621; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:13:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B81383B.C43DEEA7@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:18:03 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lanny Baron Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Code Red References: <20010820212817.C459@k7.mavetju.org> <20010820153404.12973.qmail@panda.freebsdsystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Lanny Baron wrote: > > The one thing that I keep thinking about is that will worms and viruses like > this one hurt the UNIX communtiy. Not speaking here of apache or FreeBSD. > Rather, will the doze community think that the UNIX community is a bunch of > whatevers? I'm confused. How do you see a worm that takes advantage of a security problem with Windows negatively affecting the UNIX community's image? The interesting thing (to me) is that Microsoft's propoganda engine is so powerful that they can keep such a problem from hurting their image! I mean, I've pretty much given up on Microsoft products, mainly because of these continual security problems. Why haven't others done the same? -Bill -- "Where's the robot to pat you on the back?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message