question...

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

am i the ONLY one here who is sitting back, sipping my fifth cup of coffee, and laughing quietly as i read report after report and release after release of the new win2k worms running (apparently, although i doubt it's so) rampant?

Am i the ONLY one sitting on a home Lan of 6 win2000 computers and one win2003 server that were all FULLY PATCHED the DAY the patch came out a couple of weeks ago and thinking that the actual fault of these infections lies purely with the sysadmins and other such people that did NOT patch their win2k computers immediately or as soon as possible, given the increasingly small window of time between an vulnerability and an exploit?

news flash to customers, patch your damned machines, cause you aren't going to get any sympathy from ME when you get hit by an exploit that was patched weeks earlier.

Valis

Comments

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Every time I hear about one of these worms, I just feel lighter and lighter. As my knowledge of Windows administration slowly erodes, I look back to the days of hurrying to Microsoft's site and laugh. Sure, with Linux I have to keep track of the version and security status of like a million packages, but of worms I am finally free...

[jon787.livejournal.com]

Actually depending on your distro and how many out of tree packages you install, thats not as hard as it sounds at first. Personally I think running the stable branch of Debian beats all here, but the Linux labs at my college run various releases of Red Hat or Fedora depending on when they were last imaged.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

I've been running unstable (or worse yet, knoppix) long enough to fear the consequences of a careless apt-get upgrade :) If I was doing things the way I should, it would be simple, but my desktop machines are always pretty much a mess.