[64445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Oct 24 00:23:03 2003
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:22:33 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310240006400.12836-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:13:59AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7278
>
> How many other ISPs intend to follow AOL's practice and use their
> connection support software to fix the defaults on their customer's
> Windows computers?
Sounds good to me. The potential for these users
to be less-than-educated enough about the existance of
this "feature" means that the potential for this to
increase the overall network security is a good thing.
Hopefully they will enable automatic checking and
downloading of critical software updates as well.
- jared
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