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From: aditya.deshmukh at online.gateway.technolabs.net (Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh])
Subject: Support the Sasser-author fund started

> Umm,
>    I'm confused.  Fairly new to the security scene, but, didn't 
> the worm come out AFTER the patch?  I guess Microsoft could have 
> patched it sooner so that the worm could have come out sooner.  
> The biggest question I have is why all the hostility at Microsoft 
> for patching their system? 

the problem is many times when the patch is released it tends to break many applications and other random stuff! ms is patching a hole but manages to break other things in the process quite frequently.

> There are plenty of holes still in 
> the system that warrant your wrath.  When I see a worm that comes 
> out before Microsoft patches, I'll be all over Microsoft just as 
> the rest of you "Microsoft can do no right" doomsayers.

just wait till the next worm / malware that comes and tries to infect all the computers then we will welcome u to our clan.

-aditya

p.s i am not a ms basher but i wish the ms products were not a glass house where repairing one thing causes other things to crack.

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