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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Derek Martin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:14:07AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > Derek, > > While I agree that Outlook and Outlook Express is crap, but I disagree > > with your premise. The reason that "Outlook is so aggressively targeted" > > is that it is the most widely installed email program. If Eudora Pro had > > as wide a distribution as the Outlook family, it would be targeted. > > Additionally, the W32.Sobig.F at mm does not target Outlook. If actually > > looks for email addresses in files. > > This theory does nothing to explain why IIS is the most attacked web > server. It is NOT the most widely installed web server. I conclude > that there is something else at work here. Perhaps it makes more sense if you think of it in a Product/OS combination. Compare the number of IIS on Windows servers versus Apache on Solaris, Apache on Redhat, Apache on Debian, Apache on IRIX, etc. Even if Apache had a published vulnerability, writing a worm that works effectively on any system that Apache runs on it is a lot more difficult than writing for one specific system type. Even with different linux distributions you're going to end up with programs in different locations and various other small incompatabilities. -- Greg
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