[Ti] MS SQL 2000 Worm

[Chris Rock]

I agree with Mike Stanley. You can bring a horse to water, but you can't 
force him to drink.
Just because there is a security patch, not everyone will update their 
software with it.
To be lazy is to be human.

Hell I know plenty of mac users who are either too lazy, or are just to 
paranoid to install their software updates until MONTHS after they 
release. The same goes with Windows users.

Blaming MS in this matter is like blaming the doctor who was going to 
give you your vaccine but you stopped him and now you are dying. EVERY 
piece of software has bugs, period. Any piece of software as complex as 
a database system or an OS, with all the user interactions it must 
perform will ALWAYS have vulnerabilities.

You know why MS's operating system is always targeted? Look at the 
installed user base. It's huge!! People know it, inside and out. If you 
were going to create something to hurt/damage the most machines you 
possibly could, what would you target? The OS on the greatest # of 
computers. Trust me, if the tables were turned and OS X was the most 
predominant OS in the world, there would be that many more people 
looking at how to make their users lives hell, either through a worm or 
other type of virus.

In the end it's really all about numbers. What is the highest body count 
we can go for. When you have a weapon of mass destruction, do you aim it 
at some small town with 45 people in it, or do you go for the BIG target?

- Rock





XXL wrote:

>>The vulnerability that this worm is taking advantage of was fixed by a
>>patch MS released last summer.
>>
>
>Why can't they ever get it right before they ship it? They always ship Alpha
>CRAP.  
>
>Maybe they can get away with  this because they have no real competition due
>to their  monopoly status?
>
>Microsoft should have to pay the real costs sustained by their customers
>because of their buggy trash.  They might do a little more testing if they
>had to pay thru the nose instead of everyone else having to bear the cost.
>-Joel
>
>P.S. My biggest computer problem is the constant whining of my friends that
>(try) to use Windows and beg me to fix all their problems.  My stock answer
>is not BUY A MAC!  If I wanted to spend all my time fixing Wintel crap I
>would buy one for myself.
>
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