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____/ bbgruff on Friday 07 August 2009 20:59 : \____
> John Slade wrote:
>
>> Wintrolls Lie wrote:
>>> Following the recent DDOS attacks against twitter, facebook and google
>>> from Microsoft Windows botnets isn't it time for Windows to be blocked
>>> from any Internet access? Microsoft Windows botnets also spew billions
>>> of SPAM email every day. Why should everyone suffer because Microsoft
>>> are unable to produce a secure operating system?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> OS X has a Botnet it's called iBotnet. How do you know
>> that none of the attacks came from OS X boxes? How does an OS X
>> user know if they have iBotnet or not? If they did ban all
>> Windows PCs from the internet, they would be putting botnets on
>> UNIX(OS X) and Linux systems. You guys just DON'T get it.
>
> Certainly iBotnet exists.
> The *only* way that is can spread is by downloading pirated copies of
> software - currently pirated copies of iWork â09 or Adobe Photoshop CS4 by
> P2P. It can *not* replicate itself, and the only way that it spreads is
> via such a pirated copy.
> This is a long way removed from the way that Windows malware spreads!
>
> Could it apply to Linux?
> Presumably so. All that is needed is to download and run such code.
> Odds are even more reduced though - how many Linux users do you suppose
> pirate Linux software?
>
> How would a OSX user know if he had it? Presumably by scanning his
> computer?
>
> You are quite right though - we categorically do *not* get it :-)
Repositories are a system of trust. Most people would not hunt down
counterfeited software.
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