RE: [Nolug] Why windows must die

I did an ADSL install about a month ago. The company's computer consultant
was there. He had set up the router and LAN for them. Within 1 minute of
my connecting the modem to the router the workstation he was using got
blasted. I turned off the modem right away, but it was too late. Out of 4
computers at the office, that one and another one were infected.

While this is due to a Microsoft bug, it was also due to:

1) Not applying patches which had been available for about 6 months.

2) Not turning on the firewall in XP.

3) Setting up the router with no form of NAT or other protection. They
needed public IPs for each machine because of some #$%$^& finance program
they used remotely.

Fixing any one of the above would have blocked blaster. So I can't blame it
ALL on Microsoft. ;-)

John

    John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf
Of Andrew S. Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:09 PM
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: [Nolug] Why windows must die

I've been spending the last few hours trying (in vain) to get my
company's VPN software to connect from an XP pro VM.
In desparation, I set the VM to a static IP address, and set it
to a DMZ host from the firewall in order to see if it would connect
at all. Less than a minute after that, I got a popup with an RPC
error, and the system was shutting down. I got msblasted in less
than a minute on the internet. I didn't even have time enough
to download any patches. Truly, Microsoft represents the
decline and fall of western civilization.

Windows must die,

Andy Johnson

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