Let's wage our own war on Terrorist! (Virus Programmers)

[Lurton Keel <LKeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think it is time we waged our own war against these programmer terrorists.
They caused untold costs with their malicious wares.

We can fight them on 3 fronts.

1) As conscientious managers, we should ferret out any of our staff that may
be involved in this type of terrorism.  We need to monitor the work of our
programmers and look for signs of physiological imbalance.  If we see any
signs, we should take immediate action.  Any software development area that
helps perpetuate viruses should be held accountable.
2) We need to work with the software suppliers such as Microsoft, to let
them know when we uncover possible security breaches.  I know it is great to
discover a hole and spread the word to the outside world but that fame is
not worth the costs to others.  I hate to read email about how such-and-such
discovered a way to breach security.  I would much rather get a security
patch from the vendor that just says "Apply this immediately."
3) I know this one is pretty far out, but considering the costs it is
probably time to look, again, at network stations for the masses of our
users.  I know in a couple of situations where Nimda was brought in from
outside the office.  If our mass of users didn't have access to floppy
drives, cd roms and even hard drives, the proliferation and cleaning of
these viruses would be minimized.