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Re: Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for good security


From: |reduced|minus|none| <p00p () instable net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:16:37 -0500

Exibar wrote:
What an idiot....

   Take the loveletter worm, when it was first released even if you had a
100% up to date AntiVirus software program, you would still get hit within
the first 8 hours.... slammer, blaster, etc all the same thing.    The took
advantage of holes in the OPERATING SYSTEM!!!!

loveletter didn't. you had to open it.
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