____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 02 July 2007 20:16 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:53:40 +0100
> <1255086.aymY2JhRWe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> ____/ Oldtech on Sunday 01 July 2007 23:44 : \____
>>
>>> Check the current stats for spam generation, and, yes, all the domains
>>> are Microsoft pwned:
>>>
>>> http://www.senderbase.org/home/detail_get_ip
>>
>> Bear in mind that many botnet are doing tasks on HTTP as well. In fact, I
>> was a victim of DDOS attacks in the past and these influence Web stats in
>> Windows/IE's way. It's one among the /many/ reasons Web stats are not
>> reliable (too many bots and automated requests/scans).
>>
>> Also see:
>>
>> Deconstructing a 'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Trojan
>>
>> http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=25954&a=194164&po=4,00.asp
>>
>> Damn. Microsoft has a monopoly. Mac, BSD, Solaris and Linux only account for
>> 0.05%.
>>
>
> I sure hope that's not where the Wintrools are getting
> their Linux market figures from! :-)
Spotted half an hour ago:
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1712http://www.maximumpc.com/article/fedora_7_rivals_ubuntus_ease_of_use
"Top 3 Operating Systems Used to Access the Site: Windows, 73.71%; Linux,
15.34%; Mac, 10.18%."
it's not a Linux site at all. It gets a lot of traffic.
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