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Nov 11, 2005, 01 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5714 reads)

(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

"My colleague Larry Seltzer thinks that we may be on the verge of an age of Linux worms that might rival the endless trouble that Windows users find themselves in.

"Nah.

"First, none of the trio of vulnerabilities in the luppi worm actually have a thing to do with Linux. Yes, these worms target Linux systems, but the holes they use to target aren't Linux holes at all. They're Web service script holes..."

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