full-disclosure - aside: worm vs. worm?

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Message-ID: <003801c360e0$3ef0dfe0$0101a8c0@gfserver>
From: andrew at generator.co.za (Andrew Thomas)
Subject: aside:  worm vs. worm?

> From: Mike
> Sent: 12 August 2003 12:11
> Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] aside: worm vs. worm?
> 
> 
> lol yeah and 	I guess we would all need to move to a better platform
> or a different job :)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Joey
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2003 9:36 p.m.
> To: Darren Reed; Andrew J Homan
> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] aside: worm vs. worm?
> 
> 
> imagine if the bug wiped out the infected computers' 
> harddrives. microsoft would be put out of business.

Not that I disagree with the assessment of there perhaps being a
'better platform' for a lot of operations, but by the same token
would linux or freebsd no longer be used if someone had written
or writes a malicious worm for these platforms?

I doubt it.

M$ may only be more vulnerable to this because of the fact that
they have paying customers. Sure, it'll hit them where it hurts
(financially) and they'd suffer more than an OS operating system,
but that wouldn't be any more a rational response than we generally
see from people when they're scared.

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