McNealy says .NET is a joke
On a tour of Asia, the Sun Microsystems' CEO hits out at rival Microsoft,
saying that viruses are a feature in .Net Microsoft and that Java is tops for
developers. [CNET News.com]
Umm... yeah. Can you say FUD?
The only known .NET related virus is W32/Donut and it's so lame
it's not even worth wasting bandwidth discussing any further. Get back to us
when you can actually show us a managed .NET
virus.
Update:
Phil Scott pointed out W32/Sharpei@MM in the comments . Thanks Phil, I had
forgotten about this one. So that makes two, but technically it takes
advantage of the same exploit: hijacking the executable bootstrap generated for
.NET console/winforms application images. Again it's so lame that it's called a
C# virus when really it has nothing to do with .NET (let alone the C# language).
In fact the article even mentions that the user doesn't even need
to have .NET installed. Hello?? Doesn't this set off a flag in
intelligent peoples' minds? I remember a time when certain Java compilers/VMs
offered the option to generate a bootstrapping .exe too. The same exploit could
be leveraged on those as well.