From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:24:26 -0500, Moe Trin wrote:   
   > On Sat, 20 Oct 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   >, Bit Twister wrote:   
      
      
   >  Leyla Bilge and Tudor Dumitra used data collected from 11   
   >  million PCs running Symantec's antivirus software to correlate a   
   >  catalogue of zero-day attacks with malware found on those machines.   
      
   > Now I'm trying to avoid advocacy, but that is windoze - and you get   
   > into issues of user stupidity, the rather horrible coding standards of   
   > microsoft,   
      
   Plus the Dumb@$$ decision to make root/admin the default log in. :(   
      
   > and their kitchen sink software design.   
      
      
   I hear that. What is meaningful to me is the smarter criminals would be   
   applying the "catch the unpatced masses" methodology to all platforms,   
   not just doze.   
      
   > If the d#mn application author isn't going to fix the thing in a   
   > timely manner, is your distribution going to do any better?   
      
   You are absolutely correct on the vendor side. My point was about slow   
   distribution turnaround for security patches.   
      
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