The most irritating part is that it could have been completely avoided since the fix has been out for some time.
This is what is happening with Vista and UAC, you can argue that UAC is annoying but facts are facts, UAC keeps Vista from getting hit by a lot of infections, and reportedly by all rootkits. People turn off UAC because it's 'annoying' and then whine about poor security. Hopefully MS with W7 will find a happy medium with UAC. Mike On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > >Once again, nobody said that. This is a very irritating habit you have. It > >happens so routinely that I have to wonder if it's intentional. > > Then what was this? > > >I've read about this estimate and this number was derived from looking at > >results in the worm's code itself, making this calculation dubious. I'd > >place that number somewhere between WAG and spot-on. > > > >What's odd about the percentages of OS versions in the article I linked to > >is how much of it is Windows XP SP2, which turned on the firewall and > >auto-updates by default. That tells me that the users of these machines > >received them either very poorly configured or they themselves > intentionally > >disabled these security components. > > I don't think reports of this fast-spreading worm were "dubious." > > I don't think it spreads because people "intentionally disabled these > security components." There are multiple routes of attack. > > Yes, truth telling can be "irritating," but spreading misinformation is > both irritating and dangerous. The fact is that we have another major > Windows infection in the wild. It does not hit all Windows machines, but > it does hit a lot of them. > > Attack via autolaunch is particularly troubling to me. This happened to > Apple back in the days of floppy disks and it was the only virus > infection ever to hit my office. Apple promptly removed autolaunch and it > hasn't been back since. Autolaunch trades a small benefit for a big risk. > Computers should not do this. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
