The "only has security via obscurity" thing debunked once again Friday, January 21, 2011 at 3:58 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) gewg_ wrote: ||(Linux guys DON'T have to worry about infections). sekirt wrote: |You wouldn't be able to say that if Linux had, |say, 50% or more of the market. :The fans of other OS often claim :that given a large enough share to bother malware creators[,] :GNU/Linux will be a target[,] :so there’s no need to migrate to GNU/Linux for security. Chuckle... : :Here’s an example of a "botnet" :that does target every PC running Java, including GNU/Linux. :They show that about 16 per cent of infections hit Macs. :[...] :MacOS has a much lower share than 16%. :[...] :They didn’t show any infections on Linux machines. :[...] :Jnanabot attacks on the open source platform weren’t able to survive a reboot : cache of http://mrpogson.com/2011/01/20/an-example-of-malware-in-gnulinux/ Written in response to: re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (sekirt: Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 11:20 pm) Responses to this message: re: The "only has security via obscurity" thing debunked once again (sekirt: Friday, January 21, 2011 at 8:06 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 2:54 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (Steve: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 6:42 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:20 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:58 am) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 11:15 am) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 11:47 am) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 1:57 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (sekirt: Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 5:37 am) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 2:05 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (sekirt: Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 11:20 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Mon, Oct 19, 2009, 12:02 pm) The single biggest problem on the 'Net (was:...EULAs) (gewg_: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 7:28 pm) INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (gewg_: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 2:03 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (sekirt: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 2:37 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (gewg_: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 6:24 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (sekirt: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 7:46 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (gewg_: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 10:53 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (sekirt: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 11:20 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (gewg_: Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 8:25 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (sekirt: Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 9:02 pm) "Ridiculous" (gewg_: Wed, Dec 9, 2009, 12:31 pm) re: "Ridiculous" (sekirt: Wed, Dec 9, 2009, 7:00 pm) re: "Ridiculous" (gewg_: Wed, Dec 9, 2009, 8:54 pm) re: "Ridiculous" (sekirt: Wed, Dec 9, 2009, 11:50 pm) The relative ease of tasks under ______ (gewg_: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 9:13 am) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (sekirt: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 9:30 am) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (gewg_: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 10:27 am) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (sekirt: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 3:38 pm) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (gewg_: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 5:31 pm) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (sekirt: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 10:04 pm) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (sekirt: Sun, Dec 13, 2009, 3:52 pm) Browsers (More thread drift) (gewg_: Sun, Dec 13, 2009, 7:33 pm) The "only has security via obscurity" thing debunked once again (gewg_: Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 3:58 pm) re: The "only has security via obscurity" thing debunked once again (sekirt: Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 8:06 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum