On Fri, Nov 23, 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:
We have a load of test kit here running Windows, it frightens me as it gets moved from lab to lab office to office and nobody runs anything on it to keep in check.
It's a sad sad world when you need anti virus software on your lab test kit!
I mean really, how screwed up is it to run Windows on a spectrum analyser and then leave everything open, on SP1 with no firewall and no patches and then go plugging it into peoples networks.
I believe a local university physics department had a STM (microscope) running Windows 95 or Windows 98 + embedded stuff. The drivers broke whenever you tried patching it away from the shipped software version. The academics demanded that the device be accessible from everywhere so they could drag/drop data files to/from other universities on the thing. With a public IP address. Adrian