Re: "Don't panic"?

From: Mike Iglesias (iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu)
Date: 01/30/02 

From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Date: 30 Jan 2002 18:53:00 GMT

In article <a38pdb$8vf$1@rznews2.rrze.uni-erlangen.de>,
Markus Friedl <msfriedl@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>sure, but from my experience it's better to spend
>the time fixing the problems instead of hunting scanners.

True. If you're in a University environment, you often get people
grabbing a PC and installing Linux or Windows from a CD. Now we all
know that the CD distribution has old, buggy software. But these
people don't go get all the patches and install them, they just put
the system on the network and away they go.

So we do report scans, and scan the campus trying to find the systems that
are vulnerable and get them fixed ASAP. 

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