From: Wojtek Zlobicki [mailto:wojtekz@idirect.com] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 3:09 PM
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Nothing other than anti-Microsoft propaganda. You cannot blame Microsoft for high market share.
But you can blame them for making Vbasic available to every email message that wants to rape your system. Boy, what a brain-fart that was. It still stinks. Repeat after me; nothing in an email message should be executable without express and very deliberate operator intervention.
The main reason that *Nix hosts are generally more resilient to these type of worms is that it is less likely for a non informed administrator to administer a *Nix sever.
False. A very large portion of the *nux machines are in this sad condition.
If everyone that had a IIS box available on the big I, installed all related patches, worms like Code Red would never propagate very far.
Sure they would, you'd just never notice it. A *real* programmer would have started CodeRed out at the current Level III version.
Raw socket support in NOT a bad thing. I wonder if Robert Cringely and Steve Gibson are friends.
Now here, we agree.
"Say goodbye to TCP/IP and to anonymous connections of any kind. Hello to Hailstorm, tracking everything down to the last mile, and a more business-friendly Internet with prioritized packet-handling. "
I've just been looking at Hailstorm, it sucks. Think "totalitarianism". Think, re-enforcment of monopoly position.
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I really encourage anyone with a tough skin, and looking for a good laugh to read this article.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Hough" <rch@acidpit.org> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:23 AM Subject: The Death of TCP/IP
Felt like sharing this most amusing article that I discovered in my Inbox this morning:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html
-- Robert Hough (rch@acidpit.org)