The Register: Windows Update on Linux–An Urban Legend is Born

“Somewhere in Redmond a highly-skilled network technician flips
the Big Red Switch (BRS) marked ‘Do not touch this switch,’ the
Blaster attack is foiled, and the ‘Linux to the rescue’ urban
legend is born. As all you paranoid conspiracy-theorists can see
here, on the eve of the onslaught windowsupdate.microsoft.com
ceased to be a Windows Server 2003 site minding its own business
and running Microsoft IIS, and instead became a Linux site running
(hint) Microsoft IIS.

“The BRS episode is being reported in some places, weirdly, as
Microsoft foiling Blaster, while more imaginative and hopeful
beings have concluded that in an exercise of quite awesome cynicism
The Beast simply moved the whole Windows Update shooting match over
to a Linux host. Whatever anybody says, that one’s sufficiently
tempting to run and run, despite the fact that engineering such a
switch would likely involve the dismantling of much of the Windows
Update infrastructure. (No really, it is an infrastructure, sort
of…)”

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