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Re:Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security by teej on Monday November 03, 2008 @04:31PM (#352553)
I don't see the difference between a Linux "zombie" and a Win32 "zombie". I've personally seen both platforms get compromised and when it happens the results are typically the same.

I'm solidly behind the theory of viruses being made for the cheapest platform available - Windows and Linux.

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Re:Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security by tptacek on Monday November 03, 2008 @04:45PM (#352571)
What does a virus care about how "expensive" the platform is that it infects?
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Re:Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security by teej on Monday November 03, 2008 @04:46PM (#352574)
The person creating the virus cares. Affordability of the platform is a major issue when the producers are coming from eastern Europe.
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Re:Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security by tptacek on Monday November 03, 2008 @04:53PM (#352584)
I'm thinking that suggesting that Eastern Europeans care about the cost of an OS license is a really weak argument.

Malware authors care about exactly one number: the ratio of the dollars it takes to put a malware program out in the field over the dollars collected by that malware program. That ratio is good for Windows, and extraordinarily crappy for Linux. If my mom (and all moms like her) switched to Ubuntu, the ratio would get better.

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