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Message-ID: <Sea1-F51KoTstO66lRC000022e2@hotmail.com> From: randomisedletters at hotmail.com (Random Letters) Subject: Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps ? No need to be patronising or dismissive. Our problems (assuming we're professional sysadmins rather than home dabblers) are several. 1. Home users - don't have adequate protection and get turned into zombies. They then bombard us. OK - this is dealt with by an externally facing firewall but see #2 below. 2. Office workers with laptops or VPN connections to the internal LAN - get 'infected' (see #1 above) and then connect to the internal LAN. They then bombard any newly set-up PC before we get a chance to patch it. BTW you still have to connect to a network if you have a SUS or SMS server. The "need to patch before I put it on the network" / "need to put it on the network to get the patches" IS a real problem for many sysadmins. ---------------------------------------------------------- If you're happy and you know it clap your hands ---------------------------------------------------------- Does HoTMaiL come with a spell checker? > >In an corporate environment, you will have SUS or SMS running. >If so, no need for internet access. > >If you don't have this, just place a firewall on the box, or before the >box. >How hard can this be ? You do it the same way, as you would do before >you >would patch debian/*bsd/gentoo/ect/ect/ect. > >There is no real problem here. Don't blame microsoft if you can't come >up with solutions to simple security "problems". > _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger
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