[40551] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Code Red 2 cleanup; reporting..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sun Aug 12 12:35:06 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'wb8foz@nrk.com'" <wb8foz@nrk.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 09:40:36 -0700
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> From: David Lesher [mailto:wb8foz@nrk.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 5:46 AM
>
> Unnamed Administration sources reported that mike harrison said:
>
> > Turns out that because they had not installed IIS, they did
> not patch the
> > system....
> >
> > Then when they installed Citrix, it installed IIS.
> >
> > After looking around, it seems a LOT of 'other' software
> > installs IIS when no-one is looking.
>
> Like Front Page ;-?
>
> Isn't it nice that M$ is so helpful?
I think that the point's been well-made now. Win2Kpro hosts need to run the
patches, regardless of whether or not anyone *thinks* that host is running
IIS and regardless of any nit-picky arguments against the need. NetAdmins
should quit whining and do their jobs.
I still LOVE this sig-line....
> --
> A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
> & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
> Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
> is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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