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RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..


From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem () rellim com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:37:57 -0700 (PDT)

Yo Paul!

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Schmehl, Paul L wrote:

Have you asked them when the last time that they updated was?  A remote
hole in Mac OS X was announced just last week (the realpath problem).
I'll bet most of them don't even know about it.

All OSes have problems getting users to update.  The old saying "If it
ain't broke don't fix it" will be with us a long time.   At least if
the user is using an OS with halfway decent priviledge separtion there
will probably be more limited damage when unpatched bugs are exploited.

RGDS
GARY
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