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[James Devenish]

In message <OF4A97E8F6.6EE2A8A2-ON48256D91.00087967 at au1.ibm.com>
on Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:33:36AM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
>  I know Linux and the Mac OS attracts its share of maladjusted jerks
>  just like Windows does; surely my other machines would have been
>  infected with something by now

It's not that there aren't gaping holes, it's just harder for
"executables" to spread without user intervention or bizarre application
defaults that just aren't traditional for those platforms. For example,
Mac OS version 1 though 9 didn't ship with unsecured Internet services
running by default. OTOH there have been many well-publicised and
well-advertised vulnerabilities in daemons, and this year's gnuftp
incident highlights the use of local-user exploits.