[KLUG Members] Another Wormhole in the Firewall

[Bill]

"The Worm That Wouldn't Leave"

This is beginning to sound like a badly dubbed "B" movie.

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO65058,00.html

This is a case study of the newest infestation (nimda.e) from a reasonably 
"upenatem" sysad. Read the whole story ... don't jump to the end. But once 
you've gotten to the end, chew on it for a while.

Sometimes Windows users (rightly!) acuse Linux users of being fanatics. 
Sometimes we are tempted to hand them a mirror. How many times are they 
willing to be smacked down just to keep on using Microsoft products? When 
do they decide that the price is just too darned high? Has anyone done a 
cost / benefit analysis to determine the point at which 
'nearly-universal-use is outweighed by 'nearly-universal-vulnerability'? 
Surely we must be nearing that point. Eh?

Bill
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