[72467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Jul 13 17:11:43 2004
To: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:37:37 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:11:05 -0400
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:37:37 EDT, "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com> said:
alt with at the browser level
> in MS Security Bulletin MS03-011.
>
> I have a hard time blaming MS for everything since in most cases
> of these things they do react. How do they force the users to update?
> Could they implement a switch that says "no update, no working browser"?
> At least for IE?
>
> Scob was dealt with via the hammer, this could be too.
At some point, one needs to say "I've pounded enough nails, it's time to
look at alternate fasteners..."
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