Re: Sasser connects to AS/400

First... sorry for messing up the subject line...
 
Second... to stretch the medical/disease/pandemic analogy a bit further:
 
I believe there is a cure, and those "in the know" could end all of this virus 
nonsense.  Unfortunately, there's no money in the "cure", only in "managing the 
illness."  Maybe when I get my Java skills up to snuff, I'll get a Mac G5 and 
start rewriting stuff to avoid the virus' du jour.

I also run several Windows machines (as a hobby, at home) and they are 
continuously connected to the 'net.  The only time I've had a problem with 
viruses was with my Win98 machines awhile back before I learned to properly 
configure services (I learned alot from Gibson Research - http://grc.com - and 
his ShieldsUP utility.)  This has long been corrected, and my Win2k, WinXP, and 
Win Server2003 boxes have been immune.  
 
-William

date: Tue, 04 May 2004 16:44:53 -0400
from: michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 3, Issue 666

I find that the best method of protecting a Windows PC from a virus is to
switch to a Mac.

On Tue, 04 May 2004 22:38:18 +0200, ouuch@xxxxxxxxxxx said:
> On 4 May 2004 at 16:01, Adam Lang wrote:
> 
> > Say your network is your local city. Windows is the crack head prostitute
> > running around open to disease and helping to spread them. Sure you don't
> > get infected if you don't use with her, but you still have to waste money
> > paying for her welfare.
> 
> The real problem is, that there is no really working cure. We have about
> 90% PC's
> as a standard install - same hardware, software installed from a general
> pool of
> packages, automatic virus scanner updates und patch installation.
> 
> The other 10% can't be updated due to different reasons, some even don't
> run a 
> virus scanner as it interferes with the special software running. And
> unfortunately,
> these machines are quite important to our business.
> So we are now working on a internal firewall to gather these machines in
> a special partial LAN.
> 
> It's at least good to know that one's not alone with this problem. Some
> bigger german 
> companies already had to admit problems with Sasser, too.
> 
> On the other hand, one can protect a windows PC quite good. My XP machine
> at home has
> no firewall, no virus scanner and only Service Pack 1 installed. But
> since I've switched off all
> windows services with network connections, neither Blaster nor Sasser had
> a chance.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Oliver