Monday, August 02, 2004

Slashdot | 70% Of 2004 Virus Activity Down To One Man

70% Of 2004 Virus Activity Down To One Man
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Posted by timothy on Monday August 02, @07:20AM
from the his-parents-must-be-awfully-proud dept.
arpy writes "According to a report produced by anti-virus software provider Sophos, 70% of anti-virus activity in the first half of this year can be blamed on Sven Jaschan, an 18-year-old German who wrote the Netsky and Sasser worms. According to the report, "Sasser claimed the top spot of the virus chart, in spite of the raging battle between the widespread Netsky and Bagle worms." The Register has a good summary of the report."

Worthy of note since there was not any wide spread outbreak this Monday.


5:31:56 PM    

EWeek is reporting that Sun may move to acquire Novell as a pre-emptive strike against IBM.  Sun seems to feel that SUSE (owned by Novell) is IBM's primary linux distro and controlling it would lock IBM's access to Linux.  Groklaw has a good piece on this here.  It is probably worth noting that Sun doesn't 'get' Linux as an open source operating system.  IBM does get it.  You can't fence IBM off from something that is free and widely distributed by buying a company that just repackages free stuff.
5:30:38 PM    

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