Re: SQL Server Worm devastates Microsoft Corporate networks!

begin <JIyZ9.346$Wu1.53360_at_newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, Simon Cooke wrote:

> Look, schmuckboy, it's quite simple:
>
> Lots of dev machines, running MSDE (cut down SQL server for developers)
> or SQL Server = lots of machines not getting patched, because they're
> being run by regular developers, not sysadmins.

So, to recap: the people (we can dig up who later from Google) who blamed this on sloppy admins don't have a clue.

Is that right?

> The server farms were being run by sysadmins, not developers, and so
> were patched -- but got hit by heavy traffic.

You might be so kind as to address the statement of Mr. Miller of Microsoft (say that fast) who stated for the record that Microsoft's servers hadn't been patched and got clobbered.

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