🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <pan.2004.02.15.02.37.20.58430@dontspamme.invalid>, techie <none@dontspamme.invalid> wrote:
>On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:15:49 +1000, W wrote:
>
>> "techie" <none@dontspamme.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:pan.2004.02.15.01.50.20.784223@dontspamme.invalid...
>>> Windows hasn't gotten as much scrutiny during its entire 15-years lifespan
>>> as the Linux kernel goes through every week.
>> 
>> A windows product tester - it is always good to see one from time to time.
>>
>>> > And to imply that MS software developers are less capable than
>>> > those who participated in Linux development is just dogma and cliche.
>>>
>>> Are these never-ending email worms costing businesses tens of billions of
>>> dollars a year also just dogma and cliche?
>> 
>> What about those that affect Linux, you do not hear so much about them but
>> they exist.
>
>The only Linux email worm I've heard of was about 7 years ago. I don't recall
>the name but it was in a third-party program and affected only email servers,
>not individual email clients. Linux email clients don't execute attacments, and
>our filesystems determine filetype by examining the file rather than trusting
>on the extension, so I find it doubtful that there are *any* email worms for
>Linux. But if there is then our second line of defense comes into play: many
>different distributions and many different email clients. Lack of a
>monoculture makes it impossible for an email worm to spread very far.

Which, of course, destroys one of the biggest advantages of a 
monolithic proprietary system -- it works the same way for all users.


Cheers, Phred.

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