The Microsoft Petri Dish
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| henke54 Sep 18, 2007 10:31 AM EDT |
Quoting:Strassmann said one reason that zombies and other cybernasties succeed so well is that they can easily hide in the hundreds of millions of lines of code that make up Microsoft operating systems and applications. Microsoft-based systems are a "Petri dish" for zombies, he said, adding that global reliance on MS systems exacerbates the problem.http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/dailyfed/090... |
| tracyanne Sep 18, 2007 1:04 PM EDT |
He also said Quoting:Since there are no real, inexpensive alternatives to MS today, |
| Abe Sep 18, 2007 2:35 PM EDT |
Quoting:He also said ... Very observant Tracyanne. Thanks for highlighting it, I actually missed. |
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