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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:16:26 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Patrick Simon <patsimon12@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: just how many known viruses are there for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20010801171626.A137@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010801221246.52013.qmail@web14608.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20010801221246.52013.qmail@web14608.mail.yahoo.com>

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In the last episode (Aug 01), Patrick Simon said:
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> I am wondering (in order to convince my boss) about the feasibility
> of using FreeBSD as a webserver instead of Win2000 running IIS.
> 
> In particular, I was wondering just how many known viruses there are
> for FreeBSD.

Better to compare the number of IIS vs Apache exploits (if you decide
to run Apache).  Afaik there are either zero or one known FreeBSD
viruses.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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