Re: The 'good worm' from HP

[michael williamson <michael () puffin tamucc edu>]

> Except that the scenario you describe isn't near complete.  What will happen 
> is either it will get attacked by a benign worm (possibly breaking something) 
> or a malicious worm (definitely breaking something) only a short while later.
> Which would you prefer then ?

I'd prefer to not have to deal with systems built on house cards, but
sometimes that's just not avoidable nor realistic.   I can't deal with
too much downtime either. 

> I think it is _your_ responsibility to shield your box from the internet

the box _is_ fairly well shielded. 

> if it is that fickle and that important to you.  

I'm really wanting phase this P.O.S. out, but I will mention this sort
of crap is not that uncommon of "turnkey solutions" in the windows
world. 

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