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Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerardo Gregory)
Mon Nov 24 16:36:58 2003

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:32:47 -0600
From: Gerardo Gregory <ggregory@affinitas.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200311242127.hAOLR2KL012571@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Funny you mentioned ol' Joe...

An article on the paper today stated that only 33% of U.S. citizens are 
"Tech Savvy".  Meaning allot of Joe's out there are clueless....

I bet ol' Joe's AV signatures where last updated in 98 or 99...

:)

G.

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:20:59 CST, Gerardo Gregory said:
> 
> 
>>I know Microsoft has a product that allows you to donwload patches to a 
>>centralized server (within your infrastructure) and let's you patch your 
>>internal systems from it.  Heard our MS admins talking about it a while 
>>back....
> 
> 
> Two words: Joe Sixpack.
> 
> Phrased differently - the sites that have enough clue and infrastructure to
> deploy that product are not, in general, the sites that are getting whacked
> the first time their single box connects to the net.....


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