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New Microsoft Worm Coming Soon?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-ready-for-impact dept.

Seft sent in a solid article running on the BBC discussing the next potential worm explosion on the heels of a recent Security Bulletin from Microsoft. The article is a somewhat general topic piece on worms in general.

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  1. criminally unprepared [Re:The thing is...] by Sphere1952 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "...criminally unprepared..."

    Do you mean as in somone who runs any Microsoft software?

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  2. Re:Mod the college student down... by oconnorcjo · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    However if you work in an environment with mission critical apps that cannot fail, you can't just simply "patch your systems". You must test, test and retest. Start thinking of us that operate in the real world. Cocky statements like "We've had plenty of warning about this, so it's only the criminally unprepared that will be hit right" sound outright stupid. The patch was released last Wednesday. To coordinate business departments, users and techincal staff along with testing requirements doesn't happen overnight.

    Actually any system that cannot fail should NOT be on a MS platform. The history of security,stability and predictability is just not good enough on any MS product. Mission critical is the realm of Mainframe, Unix (which includes Linux as a Unix clone), Vax and even OS/2 in its day. As much as I think win2000 was a huge leap forward for Microsoft, I would never entrust it with my life and I find it funny that many corporations do so.

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