On Jun 8, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:59 PM, JC Dill <jcdill.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I'm still truly amazed that no one has sic'd a lawyer on Microsoft for >> creating an "attractive nuisance" - an operating system that is too >> easily hacked and used to attack innocent victims, and where others have >> to pay to clean up after Microsoft's mess. >> > > Do you honestly believe that if 80% of the world's consumer computers were > *not* MS operating systems, that the majority of computers would still not > be targeted? > Targeted? Yes. Successfully compromised? Less so.
Look at it this way... The vast majority of web servers are Apache, yet, IIS is compromised far more often. Yes, Micr0$0ft is a major contributor to the problem. > Please, be for real -- the criminals go after the entrenched majority. If > it were any other OS, the story would be the same. > If this were true, the criminals would be all over Apache and yet it is IIS that gets compromised most often. Owen
