full-disclosure - MS should point windowsupdate.com to 127.0. 0.1

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Message-ID: <6FB083FB72EFD21181D30004AC4CA18A02B5329A@srv002>
From: sam.pointer at hpdsoftware.com (Sam Pointer)
Subject: MS should point windowsupdate.com to 127.0.
	0.1

Paul Schmehl wrote:

>BTW, guys, the box was secured over a year ago.  Blaster never got it, 
>neither did Slammer, Code Red, Nimda, or any of the others.  I really 
>*wasn't* asking for help.  I was *trying to get you to think before opening

>your mouth and insulting two thirds of the readers of this list.  Sadly, 
>I'm not sure it worked.

Once again bravo to Paul for actually looking at things from a real-world
perspective, which is always refreshing in the sea of CS grad,
OpenBSD-in-the-bedroom, smart-arsed, "can't believe you're getting paid and
you don't patch" nonsense which pervades this and every other list inhabited
by security "experts".

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