Worm bait?

[Derek Martin]

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.

-- 
Derek D. Martin
http://www.pizzashack.org/
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