Re: Perhaps the most OBVIOUS question you will ever see.

From: Thore \ (MAILTOcommoner_at_carcosa.de)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:10:11 +0100

Curious George wrote:

> I can't believe that I have to actually explain this to people

You aren't alone my friend.
Some three months ago, our team boss (I do IT support for production PCs for
a certain well-known German Automobile company) talked to one of the
persons responsible for a number of servers (we are a third-party company,
not part of that megacorp proper) and tried to explain to him that yes, a
certain server needs an antivirus program urgently (imagine that - it
didn't have one then!). The reply from that "specialist"? "Why should it?
In the production network it only talks to this other server, no one else,
so it's not threatened by anything!"

Since that day our team boss has a remarkably flat forehead (from banging it
on the table of course).

Oh, yes... isn't it amazing that in one of the factory halls we have about
400 welding robots... all controlled by a Win95A machine with all
partitions shared via samba, read/write permission for everyone, and yet
not a single malware infection? I guess even malware has its pride
today... ;) 

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Regards
Thore "Tocis" Schmechtig