----- Original Message ----- "Marvin T. Pascual" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My question to him was: "Assuming you are the owner of a well-known > E-Commerce site that currently running MS Windows and IIS and you've > heard that there is a major security hole on the IIS. What will you do > then with your site considering the fact that Microsoft will still have > to follow the Vulnerability Timeline process and there are already some > sites that gets cracked? Will you decide to wait for Microsoft to > release their security patches and your site will still be up or let > your site stop from operating for a moment as long as Microsoft releases > their security patches?". hehe, i could just imagine the "excitement" in his face :P case in point is the recent serious IE flaw. there's a temporary manual fix spreading around and, just recently, an "interim" fix from M$, but M$ took some time to release the fix. i personally don't want to wait every 2nd Tuesday of the month to fix my OS. that's just retarded. regards, dan -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
