OT: Viruses (Was: Re: Viruses (Was: Where's the damn Schedulers and uploaders?))

Though I agree with everything concerning OSes, this statement

All the viruses spread around the web are from and to MS systems.


is not exactly true. The first worm malware affected buggy daemons on Unix
systems (i. e. the finger daemon). 

Other OSes, however, have learned from insecurity problems, while a
well-known company tends to rather sue people reporting security holes than
closing them.

When Windows 95 was released, IT experts warned about the huge security
holes this system had. Strange enough that it took some more years until
the first malware epidemy turned up.

In early 2000 a huge epidemy, targeted on Windows 98/ME and the like
systems, rolled on, repeated every 6 to 9 months by a generic virus that
broke into systems through the very same hole as the one before. While I'm
writing this, PCs all over Europe are swamped with the latest Sober clones,
a virus first reported years ago. It has been working again and again
throughout the years. This says it all.

Matthias
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"Eins andern Knecht sol niemant seyn / Der f�r sich bleiben kan alleyn."
Paracelsus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541