[69689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Apr 18 23:17:11 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:16:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Doug White <doug@clickdoug.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <01f101c425ba$e95f05c0$2a5b8b42@clickdoug.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Doug White wrote:
> I likewise would like to see a better way - but changing the whole internet is
> completely illogical.
> Educating the masses is the same.
> As soon as I see a solution that will work, I will probably try to implement it
> on my system.
Abbot and Costello do Internet security.
Who's on first, what's on second, I don't know is on third base.
When the Morris worm was release, there wasn't a patch available. Since
then essentially every compromised computer has been via a vulnerability
with a patch available or misconfiguration (or usually lack of
configuration).
As far as improvements go, Microsoft's XP SP2 is a great improvement. If
you have a Window's machine, implementing XP SP2 could help with a lot of
the stupid vulnerabilities. Unfortunately less than 50% of Internet users
have XP.
Should ISPs start requiring their users to install Windows XP SP2?
