On Sun, 09 May 2004 06:04:48 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8562 Well, if there's another way for MS to make money, what do you expect? They certainly have never demonstrated even one iota of ethics or consideration for their customers. ...as described in an article I tried to post earlier, but seems to have not gotten through: "Dealing with widespread worms like Sasser raises the cost of using Windows, a research analyst said Wednesday. Mark Nicolett, research director at Gartner, recommended that enterprises boost spending on patch management and intrusion prevention software to keep ahead of worms, which are appearing ever sooner after vulnerabilities in Windows are disclosed. ___This is part of the carrying cost of using Windows,___ said Nicolett. ___The cost of a Windows environment has gone up because enterprises have to install security patches very rapidly, deal with outages caused by secondary problems with these patches, and deploy additional layers of security technology.___ " Link: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6966 -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 16:23:26 up 2 days, 2:50, 9 users, load average: 0.28, 0.16, 0.15 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."-- Noam Chomsky
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