[plug] MS vulnerability

[Randal Adamson]

As for NT4, M$ had stopped supporting it a while ago. 2K will eventually
follow suit now 2K3 (2003) is out. Who knows how long they will support
2K for.

For all other (newer versions), all people have to do is:

1)	Ensure they have applied the current security patches and fixes
from M$
2)	Use a Firewall between their PC's and the Internet
3)	Have the latest Virus Definitions with their Anti-Virus Software

Or:

1)	Use Linux

:P

I know what I'd choose!

Cheers,

Ranz

-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Brown [mailto:dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au] 
Sent: Friday, 15 August 2003 3:21 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] MS vulnerability



On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Craig Ringer wrote:

> > MS has discontinued support (no more patches) for NT4, and 
> > presumably NT3.x.
>
   ... snip ...
>
> I suspect that increasingly NT4 will be all bugged out. That is, most 
> security holes it has will have been fixed, and new ones will mostly 
> be discovered in /newer/ MS OSes. Also, I'd be really surprised if 
> there were many NT4 boxes connected directly to the 'net anymore.
>
Interestingly a couple of colleagues here at UWA report no instances of
infection on NT4 workstation machines and happily I'm in the same
situation.  I tend to agree that the impact will be on W2k and more
likely XP.

To return to a Linux theme, what firewall is the bee's knees?   I've
seen good comments on this list regards SmoothWall.   I suppose there'll
be several considerations beyond the obvious like manageability and
throughput.

Cheers,
Denis