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Jerry Feldman writes: | Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote: | > 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. | That theory was only for email clients. | Web servers (and servers in general) are totally different animals. IIS | has many security flaws, and is often run on personal Windows machines. | BIND is also a frequent target of attack. To be attractive to virus writers, you really need two qualities. The software has to be in use, at least at sites you want to attack. And it has to have an opening so you actually can attack it successfully. The latter is mostly what makes Microsoft's systems so popular with virus/worm writers. People may hate MS, true, but security holes in the software is what really enables the attacks. Much of the internet is run by a handful of unix or unix-like systems. They aren't successfully attacked very often, despite the obvious attraction, simply because the job is so much more difficult than with MS systems.
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