[ale] OT: virus count

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (tfreeman at intel.digichem.net)]

Half the windows machines don't get patched? <<sigh>> Some of the various 
people I know really think nothing of running a computer loaded with 
virii, as long as the fool thing still connects/surfs/whatever, it isn't 
really sick. As a result, they will not call the support tech at work 
either.

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Irv Mullins wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 09:27 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Since  I've installed Snort yesterday, I've seens at least 2 attempts
> > by the old MS SQL Worm.  Can't believe people have not patched up their
> > systems yet.
> 
> I can. 
> Maybe half of all computers running Windows are never patched. 
> Either because they are running earlier versions which don't do 
> automatic updates, or because they're running XP and the user 
> (wisely) doesn't trust MSoft enough to allow them to do automatic updates.
> Even the few who try to keep up to date with the patches lose 
> them all whenever they have to reload Windows. 
> 
> These computers have no sys admins to fix them;  they're sitting in peoples' 
> homes all day, alone, with nothing to do but send out worms and viruses. 
> 
> Regards,
> Irv
> 
> 
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