[60553] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How much longer..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob German)
Thu Aug 14 07:59:27 2003
From: "Bob German" <bobgerman@irides.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:58:40 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3F3A97DA.AE75899@globalstar.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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>To pound it home one more time, worms that attack Microsoft products
>are a bigger deal only because Microsoft has at least an order of
>magnitude greater installbase than the nearest competitor.
>--
>Crist J. Clark
>crist.clark@globalstar.com Globalstar Communications
> (408) 933-4387
It's also a factor that a lot of people are running Windows blindly,
with no experienced administrators at the helm. This has
traditionally not been the case for *nix, because of the difficulty
factor, but I can see that changing. Users, both corporate and at
home, need to be taught that there is no such thing as plug and play.
Everything requires maintenance, or at least a cursory inspection
once in a while. At least half the non-IT folks I warned about this
worm a few days back ("Run Windows Update tonight, there's a nasty
worm coming") responded with "How do I do that?".
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