From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Sun Sep 21 2003 - 23:42:47 PDT
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 07:08 PM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
<snip>
> As I ranted about elsewhere about an hour ago, the last three or four
> major outbreaks are ones that could be *prevented* by applying the fix
> that Microsoft pushed out through the Windows Update notification a
> whole week prior to the virus showing up. All it takes is someone
> setting their machine up "download and install in the background" and
> getting in the habit of rebooting every couple of days.
Sorry, that isn't acceptable, no wonder all the servers with the
highest uptimes at netcraft are running BSD.
> Once those
> patches are in place, the viruses CAN'T do their thing automatically,
> and reasonable care about not going clickyclicky on files from random
> strangers is sufficient to prevent problems. It's not the choice of OS
> that's the problem, it's a combination of inexusable laziness
On the part of the OS programmers?
> (by not
> bothering with the updates that are all but literally HANDED to the
> users on a silver platter)
Every 16 hours or so.
> and hype by anti-virus vendors claiming that
> the users are safe and secure with their SpecialAV software, leading to
> the users not bothering with the updates, becuase "the antivirus will
> take care of it."
The very fact that you NEED to buy antivirus software to even use
windows is unacceptable in my opinion.
<snip>
Marty
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