Gosh I hope you're wrong. I believe in aggressive patching. Period.
I've also been aware for a long time that if you patch aggressively, it doesn't protect you 100%, but it goes a darned long way.... Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Zero-day bugs overrated, Microsoft says On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, well, I think you should read the article before > you completely discount what they said. :-P Microsoft says people feel powerless and vulnerable when zero-day vulnerabilities are discovered. Microsoft's conclusion is that people shouldn't panic. The logic is faulty; the conclusion does not follow from the givens. People *are* powerless and vulnerable when zero-day vulnerabilities are discovered. Why should they feel good about that? Mindless panic is never a good idea, but customers are unhappy, and they have a right to be. Lately it's been more Adobe Flash zero day exploits than Microsoft zero day exploits (and hey, good job on MSFT for that), but one could easily s/Microsoft/Adobe/ in the article, and the givens would still be accurate, and the conclusion would still be wrong. I'm speculating here, but I suspect if Adobe published this claim, you would not be so quick to defend them. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
