[ Thanks to Walter V. Koenning for
this link. ]
“As the newest Internet Worm, dubbed Zotob, potently makes its
way around the world crashing business computers, I have to wonder
about that ‘old’ Linux debate.“Is Linux truly safer or could such worms target systems not
running the Windows environment? The answer, in almost every case
of Internet worms is that yes indeed it could also happen to Linux
systems. But it simply does not. It does not for a many
reasons…”
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