You don't need to deal with the majority of viruses first. You need to deal with the most destructive first. SQL Slammer was the costliest virus in terms of business downtime that I can recall. If you have one that caused more business damage, I'm all ears.
The problem with SQL Slammer is that it grants privileged access to machines that are generally trusted. Which means that the payload can spread to other machines that trust the server.
BTW, I'm downloading Oracle for 64-bit Windows. I should be able to figure out if it's 32-bit or 64-bit pretty easily.
I had a look around the Web and saw that 9iR2 was built with the Intel Compiler. But I didn't see anything on 10g which is the current release. You can read that Oracle developed on Solaris in that time frame in many news articles.
morrowinder, when the NX support was released by AMD I recall reading that about 40% of viruses are spread using the buffer overflow technique. I don't have those articles handy.
I know that but are those buffer overflow viruses? That is ONE way of many that you can write a virus.
This may be what you meant, but let me clarify just in case. Your statement should read:
I know that but are those buffer overflow viruses? That is ONE way of many that you can transmit a virus.
I'm sure that when everyone is using NX protection that the 40% number will drop drastically. :)
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