RE: Code Red 2 cleanup; reporting..

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

> From: David Lesher [mailto:wb8foz () nrk com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 5:46 AM
>
> Unnamed Administration sources reported that mike harrison said:
>  
> > Turns out that because they had not installed IIS, they did 
> not patch the
> > system....
> >
> > Then when they installed Citrix, it installed IIS. 
> >
> > After looking around, it seems a LOT of 'other' software
> > installs IIS when no-one is looking.
>
> Like Front Page ;-?
>
> Isn't it nice that M$ is so helpful?

I think that the point's been well-made now. Win2Kpro hosts need to run the
patches, regardless of whether or not anyone *thinks* that host is running
IIS and regardless of any nit-picky arguments against the need. NetAdmins
should quit whining and do their jobs.

I still LOVE this sig-line....
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