On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Devin Meade<[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. Any developers that use Visual Studio must patch it, recompile and
> redistribute all apps.  Nice.

  Also, anyone who uses any of that software must obtain the patched
software and deploy.

  In other words, a significant portion of the Windows programs in the
known universe should be patched.

> 6. Lookout for laptop BIOS level security packages (computrace, et.al.).  We
> have none of these.

  Be careful.  Your laptops may *support* such packages even if you
don't have/use them, and I'm guessing such support would still be
vulnerable.

  For example, all our Dell Latitudes support the CompuTrace option.
We've never had it or used it.  However, I think I'll be sending my
minion around and having him invoke the "permanently disable" command
in the BIOS for all of them.

-- Ben

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