Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Nov 2005 23:26 UTC
"The Luppi worm is blazing a trail with great potential for attackers. We might learn a lot about how secure Linux systems are in the next few months. While the authors [of the worm] are clearly still feeling their way around, there's no reason to believe that this will be a real biggie. But if someone writes a well-designed 'grab bag' worm to exploit the various bugs in PHP and other products common on Linux servers, we could have a problem on our hands."
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RE[5]: Ease of evasion
by archiesteel on Thu 10th Nov 2005 17:56
in reply to "RE[3]: Ease of evasion"
Member since:2005-07-02
Your blind mislabelling of every comment of mine as troll/flamewar material only proves the single-track, closed-minded nature of the typical Linux zealot.
Well, considering the fact that almost every one of your post *does* start (or fuel) a flame war, I'd say that it's not in fact mislabeling, but rather an astute observation. But of course I don't expect you to agree - nor that it really matters, because all one has to do to verify my statement is look at your post history.
Thanks for playing.
Heh. I was playing here long before you ever crawled your way in, and I'll be still playing long after you've gone. Your empty posturing fools no one, troll.
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2005-07-02
You're the only one here who sees a flamewar in every comment of mine. Get a life, asshat.
Wow, insults already. Didn't take you long to run out of arguments.
One would need to be blind not to see the flamewars you provoke. Do I really need to point to some of them? They're all on record, you know. You're a troll, you start flamewars. That's just what you do.
In case you haven't noticed, most OSnews/Slashdot Linux zealots ARE a homogenous mass that follows the exact same line of thinking.
Uh, no, they're not. Not anymore than pro-MS posters are. People disagree on many things, but when you start flame wars (like you always do) of course you're going to see the same knee-jerk reactions come up, regardless of the topic.
Trolls thrive on strife and conflict - flamewars, in other words.
A simple way to prove that Linux advocates do not all think the same way, or act as predictably as you claim: I completely recognize Luppi as a Linux Worm. Hey, the ratio of malware for Windows to Linux is already catastrophic for Windows, it's not as if a single worm would make much of a difference. So this is in fact a Linux worm, and this is in fact an occasion to remind everyone to update and patch their system, no matter what OS they run, and to make sure that exposed servers are secured properly.
It's all a matter of perspective: 100,000 viruses and worms for Windows, 100 for Linux. That's 50 times more when you account for market share. The Luppi worm is a Linux security threat, and we must acknowledge it as such - that still doesn't change the fact that, when malware is concerned, Windows is quite at risk while Linux barely is.