Author: Paul McNett <p at ulmcnett .D.O.T com> Subject: Re: Brought to you by the people who gave you IE Posted: 2009/10/01 10:39:17Alan Bourke wrote: > Installed user base is definitely a factor - if you want a nice army of > compromised machines to do what people actually do with them, like DDOS > attacks, then it makes sense to go after Windows.
Although an army of compromised Linux machines would have much more powerful and capable tools at their disposal. Paul ---------------------------- Ya - there was a problem with TrixBox images, which was built on a CentOS distro. For about 11 months, someone had hacked the codebase , the hack got INTO the images, ppl downloaded it all, used it. If the machine was live on the internet, it called home, did some stuff. I can't remember WHAT that stuff was, but one of my test machines got hit. Two Clients got hit, also... It was a PITA. I like TrixBox - just did a cool hack with dbf data on a flagship (thats the name of the compiler ) system. My Prior trixbox installs and hacks were mostly VFP/Wintel 'reads' on the call detail records in that mySql instance (boring, I know, but... ) Anyway - TrixBox is stable this year .. Yeah !!!! This is what, my 4th year of support with it? _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
