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  3. December 2001

Re: Is IIS worth the risk?

I'm tellin ya, some people should write to the editor's and to the writers
(maybe some of our resident security specialists here heh Tom?)

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/12/24/011224tcpcp.xml

John Carr
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On Mon, 31 December 2001, "Adam Lang" wrote:

>
> Quote from article:
>
> "Worms, site defacements, and DDoS (distributed denial of service)
attacks
> strike non-Microsoft servers daily. Microsoft simply makes a juicier
target,
> mostly by virtue of its gigantic installed base, than any of its
> competitors."
>
> Which is a load of crap.  This justifies email viruses.  Apache owns 60%
of
> the webserver market.  IIS about 20 to 25%.

What really interests me about this is that the quote was from the pro-IIS
contributor to the article.

Tom Liotta

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