RE: [Full-Disclosure] Support the Sasser-author fund started

From: Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] (aditya.deshmukh_at_online.gateway.technolabs.net)
Date: 05/14/04

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    To: "Ron Jackson" <ISSecurity@lifenet.org>, "full-disclosure" <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 23:06:27 +0530

    > Umm,
    > I'm confused. Fairly new to the security scene, but, didn't
    > the worm come out AFTER the patch? I guess Microsoft could have
    > patched it sooner so that the worm could have come out sooner.
    > The biggest question I have is why all the hostility at Microsoft
    > for patching their system?

    the problem is many times when the patch is released it tends to break many applications and other random stuff! ms is patching a hole but manages to break other things in the process quite frequently.

    > There are plenty of holes still in
    > the system that warrant your wrath. When I see a worm that comes
    > out before Microsoft patches, I'll be all over Microsoft just as
    > the rest of you "Microsoft can do no right" doomsayers.

    just wait till the next worm / malware that comes and tries to infect all the computers then we will welcome u to our clan.

    -aditya

    p.s i am not a ms basher but i wish the ms products were not a glass house where repairing one thing causes other things to crack.

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