I agree with Leonard. About a year ago, an automatic windows update made my home PC unusable. I had to being it up in safe mode and fall back. Windows is a necessary evil but still evil. Luckily, I rarely use the PC anymore with the iPhone.
Dave B. إسرائيل قتلت 40 ألف فلسطيني بريء On Friday, July 19, 2024, 8:21 PM, Leonard D Woren <[email protected]> wrote: (Multiple replies included.) Rick Troth wrote on 7/19/2024 6:56 AM: > Somehow a name like "Crowdstrike" seems fitting. Yeah, but this was Strike 3. Seems that Crowdstrike sent out a bad update in 2009, and another bad update a year ago. Quality control must be non-existent. I hope they go out of business. My employer had to get many additional people on the internal help desk to work on getting all employees back up. The problem was compounded by other layers of paranoia, er, security. (OTOH, it's extremely unlikely that my company will ever be hacked.) Ultimately, the only reason that Windoze gets blame for this is that it's STILL just a big collection of bugs and security holes and because the core design is so flawed, it can't be fixed, so stuff like Crowdstrike gets installed to protect against bad actors. Wayne Bickerdike wrote on 7/19/2024 1:46 PM: > Some kind of false economy to make the PC the entire tool of choice for > certain routine tasks. PCs aren't the problem, Windoze is the problem. If there weren't so many holes, there wouldn't need to be a continuous stream of new (newly discovered) holes needing to be fixed. It's multiple orders of magnitude easier to fix one mainframe that's down than thousands of Windoze PCs. Apparently every user with a bricked PC had to call the help desk and get a code and instructions for repairing their PC, because there was no way to push the fix out to everyone. (And of course, we couldn't read our work email to find out what was going on or how to fix it!) Some people never learn -- this reminds me of the Internet Worm from 1988, which I think (don't remember for sure) required staff to go visit all 2000 Sun workstations on campus to fix the Worm damage which had been rdist'd out, and which broke rdist so it could not be centrally remedied. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm The 6000 number quoted there can't be right; the true number had to be much much higher since just one university had essentially all of its thousands of workstations hit. This is why most things under my control are set to "download updates and ask to install." So they're not installed bleeding edge time, and hopefully I'll hear about any disastrously bad update before I click Install. Imagine how big the disaster would have been if it was z/OS auto-installing updates as soon as some random poor-QA company makes a bad fix available for silent automatic install. /Leonard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
