RE: MS Anti Virus?

["joe" <mvp () joeware net>]

1. See XP SP2
2. If you know the amount, possibly this could be part of your issue. :oP
[1]



[1] I wouldn't know Czech from Portuguese. You could give me a shampoo
bottle with instructions in Czech and I wouldn't know what to do with it,
heck I might not even know it was shampoo.
 

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[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Pavel Kankovsky
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:31 PM
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Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] MS Anti Virus?

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, joe wrote:

> Home users never should have been impacted as they should be running 
> firewall software on the internet connections. The fact that they 
> don't isn't MS's fault, however MS is stepping up with XP SP2 to help 
> out. On top of that they should be patching when necessary.

But it is their fault they release OS with ~5 hard-to-deactivate plus ~5
almost-impossible-to-deactivate dangerous but mostly useless (*) network
services enabled by default that is guaranteed to be owned within 10 minutes
after you plug it to the network unless you 1. install extra firewalling
software, or (assuming you got the version with a builtin packet filter) 2.
smoke enough grass to be able to grok their own configuration dialog windows
(**).

Indeed other vendors made the same stupid mistake in the past (and some of
them insist on repeating it).

(*) Who needs network accessible MS RPC services on a home PC?

(**) I admit I am talking about the Czech version. Maybe the English
version, not affected by the "creativity" of any localization team, is
somewhat more understandable.


--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

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