Re: SASSER WORM IS A BITCH!

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From: Don Burnette (d.burnette_at_clothes.comcast.net)
Date: 05/07/04 

Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 23:49:07 -0500

kurttrail wrote:
> Jim Macklin wrote:
>
>> My wife works for a college which has an IT department, or
>> so they say. Had they been doing the job they are paid to
>> do, as is the case with so many establishments, these worms
>> and viruses would never get off the ground.
>> They would be checking daily for updates and notices and
>> using their LAN to update the networks they are supposed to
>> be maintaining.
>>
>> Perhaps the motto should be "Stupid and lazy people should
>> not compute."
>
> With decades of code with little thought towards security, not just
> by MS but throughout the commercial software market, how long do you
> think before we see a Sasser-like bug before MS gets to release a
> patch?
>
> I wonder if you'll be man enough to eat your words when it does
> happen.

You sure admire folks that are " man enough".
Keep showing your true self there school boy. 

-- 
Don Burnette

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