On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:53:46PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
This, in fact, is the single biggest thorn in our side at the moment. It's hard to adopt a pious "patch your broken box" attitude when the user can't get it patched without getting 0wned first...
This is where you start forcing users through a captive portal to the update site of their vendor, I think they'll get the idea when every site they try to bring up turns out to be windowsupdate.microsoft.com [snip]
Given the Lion worm that hit Linux boxes, and the fact there's apparently a known remote-root (since fixed) for Apple's OSX, what operating systems would you consider "acceptable"?
Anything that's not currently infected, and is patched to the current 'safe' level. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203