Paragon
08-31-2003, 02:01 PM
Six degrees of virus infection
THE GUY from Microsoft agreed about the dangers of software monoculture, but was truly puzzled when I said, "Most viruses these days spread via the Outlook address book." "They can't," he said. "We put out a patch for that years ago." In 2000, to be precise.
I appealed to the others of my brethren at the press conference to back me up. "People don't know about it," said Simon.
No, they don't, and even if you want to take the view, as PC Pro columnist Jon Honeyball does, that any business that got hit by the Sobig.F worm should fire its IT director for incompetence, it's not fair to condemn consumers.
Read the full story here (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11268)
THE GUY from Microsoft agreed about the dangers of software monoculture, but was truly puzzled when I said, "Most viruses these days spread via the Outlook address book." "They can't," he said. "We put out a patch for that years ago." In 2000, to be precise.
I appealed to the others of my brethren at the press conference to back me up. "People don't know about it," said Simon.
No, they don't, and even if you want to take the view, as PC Pro columnist Jon Honeyball does, that any business that got hit by the Sobig.F worm should fire its IT director for incompetence, it's not fair to condemn consumers.
Read the full story here (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11268)