[mdlug] [Wftl-lug] eBay phishing Linux-driven?

Garry Stahl tesral at comcast.net
Thu Oct 4 16:06:37 EDT 2007


Michael Rudas wrote:
> ...which was pretty much my point.  The presentation is framed (and
> titled: "eBay phishers use Linux botnets") as though the Linux boxen
> WERE some sort of sooper-seekrit botnet in-and-of themselves.  How
> many MSCE drones will read it that way and not grok the truth?
>   

All.  It's FUD.  Yea, Spammers use Linux servers so their servers don't
get zombied.  After all, who knows best how to zombify a computer?

In a backassward way it's a down right compliment.  However such
enthusiasm we don't need.

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