Friday, February 11, 2000

Blame Linux for DoS? -- 12:19 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

This is straight out of the "Check my facts? What does that mean?" category. A trained monkey at Network Associates claims that Solaris and Linux have an inherant vulnerability that Windows does not have, making them vulnerable to being taken over and used for Denial of Service attacks. He claims that the OS's open-source nature makes it very easy for these hacks to be added. The really sad thing is that the utterly clueless will buy into this tripe. Thanks Slashdot for the continuing reminder that just because someone works for a big computer-oriented company, it doesn't mean that they can't suffer from cranial-rectal inversion.

The Master comments: Heh-this coming from a company that can't release a decent auto-up(date/grade) system for THEIR OWN VIRUS APP under win9x, and releases false-alarm virus detects that they don't fix for multiple dat releases. Sure-whatever Network Associates.

J.t.Qbe comments: This story was pulled at 11:17 PST due to "flagrant inaccuracies." Yeah, no kidding! Lots of good discussion over at Slashdot and Linux Today, though.

News for 02/11/2000

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