Timothy Murphy: >> This may be, as you suggest, because hackers target Windows systems. >> But that doesn't alter the fact that Linux systems are much safer >> in the real world. Tod Merley: > Is that really true?? How do we know?? "Bot" makers love this > attitude! It keeps them alive!!! Please do remember the separation between OS and applications. I've seen Windows, with no extra applications installed, get stuffed up merely by being on a network. The usual example for a Linux hack is through a server application (e.g. a webserver), where the hack is the server (which is applicable whether the server runs on Linux or Windows). -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
