[61187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft distributes free CDs in Japan to patch Windows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Mon Aug 25 17:40:34 2003
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:39:30 -0400
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3F4A7948.6020302@brightok.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 05:02 PM 8/25/2003, Jack Bates wrote:
>Henry Linneweh wrote:
>
>>Microsoft has a task scheduler that people should learn to use to remind
>>them to check update to make sure their patches are current, it is
>>located in the control panel and labled Scheduled Tasks and has an
>>Add Scheduled Tasks icon to add update, FYI
>>
>
>And that helps a fresh store bought computer how? It'll be infected before
>it can even download the first initial patches.
Purchase of a $60 NAT/router and inserion of that between computer and
cable modem deters this type of attack, and allows the user the chance to
download patches. So does enabling the firewall feature Microsoft put into
XP, but didn't enable (and have now decided to enable).
