On Saturday 01 February 2003 19:02, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, andre wrote: > > On Saturday 01 February 2003 16:00, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > boxes to patch?", "Don't worry, we installed latest Mandrake and it > > > migrate our dbs to postgres, we don't even have to patch, just migrate > > > the rest, we're running drakpxe now to setup remote network installs". > > > > postgres needs patches to. > > But you see, I don't have to patch our Linux boxen, I have someone else do > it for me. He is very reliable, works late hours so I don't have to, and > is never sick. His name is Daemon, Cron Daemon ;-). > Windows has automatic update to, which nobody uses because microsoft is known to release patches that will make your computer stop working
> And remember a default MSSQL installation runs with "System" (ie root) > priveleges, so the bandwidth suck was not the critical part, but the fact > that it advertises vulnerable systems. A poster on a local LUG list set up > a honeypot box last Saturday morning, and 3.5 hours later caught a Russion > hacker on the box, who reckoned he had "root" on 34 SQL boxes in our > country. To many deamons run as root in the *nix world to
