Maurice Lucas - TAOS-IT wrote:
> I dont know in which world you live ... but in the REAL world i
live, not all systems are managed by proactive admins. In fact, in the
REAL world, LOTS of systems are just left alone running. And it works
most of the time, despite of all the theorical and practical
considerations against it. I know that isn't right, that isn't secure,
that's not the optimal situation ..... but thats the REAL situation.
If you don't have the time, knowledge, or whatever. Don't be a sysadmin.
Being a sysadmin for a PRODUCTION server is a real job.
I hire someone to fix my car and repair my roof. Why because I could
try and fix something but I know I can't complain if I break
something.
Ohh, bad analogy.
According to comments already made, to be a competent car owner
you've got to periodically check the websites of all the bits that go
into it. So we'll start with (for example) Ford for the base vehicle,
and (for example) Michelin for the tyres, and Bosch for the engine
management, Girling for the brakes, ....
But then again, if I don't I don't find myself sat in the middle of
the road with a dead car - I've yet to hear of a vendor building in a
facility with the sole function of bricking your car if you don't
keep going to them for updates.
And guess what, when you take your car to be serviced, the guy that
services it won't go and check with all the vendors to check, just in
case, that someone has plans to remotely brick it in the next 6
months.
IFF he's a (say) Ford main dealer then he'll check with Ford if there
are any bulletins that apply to it.
> despite of all the warnings, the EOL signature was a bad move in
my opinion.
We are talking about a message send to everyone who cares for there
system of October 5th, 2009.
As pointed out, it was ***NOT*** sent to people running the servers -
you've done the equivalent of Ford putting a notice up in it's
corporate reception and expecting all owners to know about it. Had I
known 6 months ago rather than this morning, I'd not be complaining
for the simple reason that I'd have been able to deal with it.
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old ones don't run in the wild anymore.
For half the day I've been forced to detect no virus's. Now I'm only
detecting the ones known about up till yesterday.
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