[61678] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Automatic shutdown of infected network connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Wed Sep 3 10:50:34 2003
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:50:55 -0400
To: Omachonu Ogali <nanog@missnglnk.com>,
"Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix@techmonkeys.org>
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030903144156.GB28838@dipole.informationwave.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 10:41 AM 03/09/2003 -0400, Omachonu Ogali wrote:
>And if you just bought a new system, it should have the big update
>(SP2) installed on the machine already, unless you're dealing with
>an incompetent PC manufacturer/reseller/whatever that likes to cut
>corners (say something idiotic like buying plain XP OEM CDs instead
>of XP+SP2 OEM CDs because it saves them $1-3 per seat from some gray
>distributor) or not stay up to speed on MS security because they
>don't want to deal with after-sale support or provide it.
FYI, the last 3 Dell laptops we bought (2 weeks ago) all needed about 56MB
of patches OOTB
---Mike
