Re: 10 minutes to Sasser?

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 05/05/04 

Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 09:23:33 -0600

Sounds real good and easy.
However before you do that, do you have any idea how many home
networks will be broken by ICF?
How many business networks would be broken by ICF?
I have no idea, but the numbers would likely be staggering.
ICF is designed for a single computer and does not take into account
local networks.

Since those without a firewall enabled often do not patch the net
effect may be to break systems that are maintained and do nothing to
those computers that actually need it. 

-- 
Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
"BeamGuy" <nobody@SPAM.com> wrote in message
> It would not be all that hard to publish a system patch that simply
turns the
> firewall on... for windows xp.

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