[LINK] The White House IT -- a joke!
David Lochrin
dlochrin at d2.net.au
Fri Jan 23 11:03:20 AEDT 2009
On Friday 23 January 2009 10:38, Stilgherrian wrote:
> And all kinds of Windows since (from memory) Server 2003
> and XP SP2 also automatically install their security patches.
...and audit your system while they're at it, or they certainly used to do so. One of the things I intensely dislike about MS Windows is the way Microsoft apparently feel they have some right to get in there and fiddle with your system; it was no longer possible to manually manage updates last time I tried to do so some years ago (unless, perhaps, in a corporate environment?). There are many stories of things not working after such "updates".
> Both can fail to do so, of course, and both can leave the
> system vulnerable if a competent systems administrator
> doesn't notice that the patches have stopped happening.
> The difference is...?
I received a CERT notification three days ago:
Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-020A
Microsoft Windows Does Not Disable AutoRun Properly
Original release date: January 20, 2009
Last revised: --
Source: US-CERT
David
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