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Three most common found Bots licensed under GPL. Love that Open Source idealogy!!!

Of the seven families listed, five target Linux\Unix. Four specifically target Linux\Unix.

Bots use IRC channel - this has nothing to do with IIS.

And of the three machines they tested - two were dial up, one was connected to broadband (so why the scare line of Always On Connections being evil? Who knows or cares). And of course, none of the honeypots were behind NAT routers, or using any kind of firewall at all.

So like - Dude - may be that the salad days of Linux is Secure might be going away. But But But, I have Linux - I never log in as root - oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..........my GIMP now limps, my GNU got gored, my Gentoo is only good as a lean-to.....

Oh, BTW. The code seems to also be written in C or C++ - this sure ain't no VBA script kiddy crud. Seems these guys know what they are doing, as the report had a lot of respect for the quality of the code.
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Well there you go  Linux User 147560 | 03/16/05
But, but, but...  Martin Marvinski | 03/16/05
But ISS gets hacked much more because it only has 20% market share!  Jeff Spicoli | 03/16/05
But that's only because....  nucrash | 03/16/05
Well..  Jeff Spicoli | 03/16/05
Hey, leave the Apple icons alone  FilledOut | 03/17/05
It's the M$hill mantra: "Because of Market Share!"  Xunil_Sierutuf | 03/16/05
Apple did it  FilledOut | 03/17/05
Oh Jeff - you so funny!  quietLee | 03/16/05
This is why  Roger Ramjet | 03/17/05
Day late and couple dollars short  quietLee | 03/17/05
And for the truly smug Penquinista  quietLee | 03/17/05
For the nix faithful.  IT Scion | 03/22/05
Not that I disagree  IT Scion | 03/17/05
LOL.. was there any doubt a Flawed OS(TM) was behind it?  Xunil_Sierutuf | 03/16/05
Well, gee......  TechType | 03/16/05
I think its more complicated  Roger Ramjet | 03/16/05
But does Linux make a better hosting platform  FilledOut | 03/16/05
Hope I won't be affected...  Grayson Peddie | 03/16/05
Surprise surprise  Joe Fristoe | 03/16/05
You're assuming a robust design...  Xunil_Sierutuf | 03/16/05
I run windows behind a NAT router  osreinstall | 03/16/05
Did anyone actually read this thing?  arentol | 03/16/05
Ooh, big surprise.  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 03/16/05
One side of the coin  Roger Ramjet | 03/17/05
Another way to look at it  NonZealot | 03/17/05
Glad you finally recognized  Roger Ramjet | 03/17/05
Only one problem  NonZealot | 03/17/05

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