[plug] MS vulnerability

[Quintin Lette]

Sorry I have to add 1 further note on the windows side:

4. _Hope_ M$ decide that it is a high enough priority to patch it quickly, 
while in the Open Source community someone else is able to see the code and 
fix it themselves.

:)

Quintin
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 03:41 pm, Randal Adamson wrote:
> 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