[Talk] Media Release: OPEN SOURCE USERS UNAFFECTED BY SASSER WORM - THE INTERNET KEEPS GOING DESPITE FLAWED PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Mon, 10 May 2004 14:14, David Purdue wrote:
> Just to play devil's advocate...
..
> This release fails to mention that the Morris Worm propagated by
> exploiting weaknesses in Sendmail, an open source program.

Your devil is pretty old ;)

> So it could also be said that what the Morris Worm did is clearly
> demonstrate that software being open source does not imply that it is
> immune to virus/worm attack.
>
> If the real lesson is that I should source my applications from multiple
> code bases, what is the alternate codebase for something that does the
> same job as Apache?
>
> ;-)

Actually there are plenty of other open source web servers out there.

Also, it's harder to write a worm that will run on more than one platform 
(certainly difficult if you want it to be reasonably small)

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