[lelio]

show signs of a coordinated attack by an entity wanting to disrupt world commerce

Its disrupting world commerce alright, Microsoft's share of it. People should wake up and realize that MSFT is the world's biggest virus petri dish maker.

[milan]

People should wake up and realize that MSFT is the world's biggest virus petri dish maker.

I work in IT and I love the absolute ignorance of these comments. If Linux was on top, the virus/worm activity would be directed at them. This is the typical "success should be punished" mentality that the Democrats display.

[Pro-Bush]

c'mon you can't blame microsoft for this one...They are the biggest Gorilla out there, it is obvious that any hacker would attack the Windows OS platform to acheive maximum damage.

[TomGuy]

Hate to burst your petri dish, but if MSFT ceased to exist tomorrow, the Linux, or the replacement would be the next target.

Whenever any other platform becomes a significant platform, then it will become susceptible to cyberattacks.

[Robert_Paulson2]

fight terrorism...
download linux or another unix distro that does not have the "come and kill me" entrances for computer viruses.

macs work nicely.. but osx is a unix.

[Doohickey]

Blaster was a self-fulfilling prophesy. I remember when the RPC flaw (which, by the way, had been lying around undetected since 1995) was announced, I knew it would only be a matter of time before an exploit was developed.

If it is such crappy code, why is taking eight years to find these things?

I use Windows and Linux, and find myself needing to patch each about equally as often. I use RHN to do it, since it would be a killer going to the various .org's to download the latest stable build.

Off topic, but why isn't RHN accused of being spyware like Windows Update is? Is Microsoft the only company that could possibly have evil intent?

[PatrioticAmerican]

" People should wake up and realize that MSFT is the world's biggest virus petri dish maker."

I guess Linux is perfect?? LOL!!