The 'Storm' worm ...

The WAN side of my modem has been under constant attack from botnets for a few weeks now - and most IP numbers are spoofed to boot. ISP is too clueless and can't even be bothered looking into it. It looks like we have a "Microsoft Internet" - you know, "Oh, it's always been like that - just reboot your machine". I'm horrified as I read through the various blogs commenting on 'Storm' - everyone's saying "oh, that's too hard, Storm wins, we can't really do anything". DUH. Newsflash: it's Microsoft's inferior crap that's allowing Storm to be the menace that it is - without Microsoft's dominant malware, the crooks will be forced to serve bots on their own hardware (and the incredibly small fraction of *NIX machines that get r00ted). Contrary to the common Microsoft-sponsored myth, *NIX systems will not be the victims of huge numbers of viruses, trojans, and other malware if they were the dominant systems. Also contrary to M$-sponsored myth, VisDuh is not by any means more secure than previous WinDos versions - but of course no one likes to talk about the numerous successful attacks to date on VisDuh. Now VisDuh is a genuine case of "as it becomes more dominant there will be more malware written for it".