On Wednesday 04 February 2004 21.26, Charles Kunce wrote:
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 12:05, Anders Johansson wrote:
I'm beginning to think Microsoft was right: as soon as linux desktop use hits a high enough number we're going to have the same virus problem as they do
Don't totally agree. Since Apache, which is open source has about two thirds of the web servers (netcraft.com) and has almost none of the worms and virii, I don't think the comparison between open source and Microsoft is valid.
I think both you and Ben were missing my point by about a mile. We had two users, one even said that he saw the security notice. And yet he continued to run a version that he *knew* had a remotely exploitable vulnerability in it. And others too. And they just kept trying and trying because even though they had read the security alert "there's no other version to try" With attitudes like that we're *very* close to "hey, an attachment, cool, let's click it and see what happens"