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> On 7/23/07, Joe Greco <[email protected]> wrote: > > All right, here we go. Please explain the nature of the bot on my freshly > > installed (last night) FreeBSD 6.2R box. > > %age of freshly installed freebsd 6.2R boxes v/s random windows boxes > on cox cable? That's fairly irrelevant. The fact is that this isn't targetting infected boxes, it's targetting everyone. > Like anything else, its a numbers game. All of computing is a numbers game. That doesn't make it right to go around breaking random services just because it might fix some random problem. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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