Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Pah!

I have been spending the morning patching computers at my work because of a stupid microsoft security hole! The story is, Microsoft released a report about a vulnerability (they had been notified of it months before) that made all Win2K, XP, and NT 4 computers susceptible to remote take-overs, etc a month ago. They said not to worry about it essentially because it would be too hard to write a virus to exploit it.

Well, it wasn't. So, we had to disconnect our whole building from TAMU's network, shut down all the computers, and manually install a patch one computer by one. Bah!

And what's worse, the government is using Microsoft software for things like homeland security, when Microsoft itself doesn't have any security at all!

As I said previously, Pah!

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