On Monday 13 December 2004 1:44 pm, Brad Bendily spake: > > One of the DoS events was caused by a brand-new Sony VAIO that I > > personally unpacked out of its shipping carton and plugged into the > > network myself. While theoretically possible (it's happened a few times > > before during the last few decades), I doubt that the thing shipped with > > a worm. > > Sure, but if it didn't get the right patches soon enough, it could have > received a worm while just sitting idle on the network. Is the machine > fully patched?
I patched it the next day, I think. I believe I twiddled with a few settings (I don't remember which), and that laptop never gave us any more trouble, as far as I know. However, no other box on the LAN (I think about 30+ seats) had any infection that I knew about. -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL
