Re: SQL Server Worm devastates Microsoft Corporate networks!

"Simon Cooke" <simoncooke_at_earthlink.net> writes:

> Bottom line, Linux is a minority OS whose userbase pales in comparison
> to that of Windows.

I am sure Jaguar owners envy people driving around in their VW Golfs as well. (Not sure what the U.S. equivalent would be, but it probably involves Lexus.)

> Bottom line: There's lots of SQL installations being used by Windows
> software developers - and Microsoft has plenty of those people working
> there - which are not under the care of a system administrator. As the
> developers don't perform the same level of care and feeding, the patch
> doesn't get applied.

If they don't care for security in their environment, how can we trust them to care for security in the software they make?

> Solution? Windows Update should check for it. But hey, you start doing
> that, and people complain that you're a monopoly. (Which is why, for
> example, Office Update isn't done through Windows update).

Nor Windows Media Player's updates. Received on Tue Jan 28 2003 - 11:35:02 CST