On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Scott Weeks wrote:
on the .pif, .scr, etc. attachments...) Maybe I was just lucky. Most likely, though, they did not create "security zones" to keep problems contained within certain network segments and not let them out to destroy other networks.
Luck is very important. Like most other people I have no knowledge about how the Navy Marine Internet works, but that won't stop me from commenting. It sounds like a "turnkey" operation, with EDS managing everything. They may have 100,000 users with identical configurations (software, patch levels, etc) in one big flat network. A large homogeneous population is vulnerable to a common infection. Nachia has a very effecient scanning and infection process, particularly if your entire network uses RFC1918 address space internally.