Re: how we will program in the future

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"it is
asking a lot to expect Joe User to perform arcane and undocumented
system security tasks on his home PC."

Like letting auto update run? :p

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 11:52 AM
Subject: RE: how we will program in the future

>
> This is a change of subject!  Any computer is vulnerable to bad security
> administration, from OS/400 to Windows.  But there are entire classes of
> security breaches that are largely or wholly specific to Windows and
> that require additional security patches just to counteract them, and
> the "malicious website" problem is just one of them.
>
> As to the issue of whether the administrator didn't secure the machine,
> Nimda and its many brethren couldn't have flourished if it took an overt
> act of bad administration on every one of the thousands or millions of
> affected machines.  Instead, they were SHIPPED unsecured and vulnerable
> to a host of worms and viruses.  And while you can easily argue that an
> OS/400 machine needs to be locked down the moment it is installed, it is
> asking a lot to expect Joe User to perform arcane and undocumented
> system security tasks on his home PC.
>
> Joe
>
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