Corporate policies may or may not allow all users to access WindowsUpdate, or if they are using WinNT / 2000 / XP they might not have local admin rights.
Not quite as simple as your glib assertion would have it. Phil --------------------------------------------- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK > -----Original Message----- > From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 03 December 2001 14:37 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Badtrans and SirCam > > > Why should I blame the AV product. > > Both problems could have been fixed by the users going to the > WINDOWSUPDATE > site and pulling down the critical updates. That's not too > hard is it? The > users just have to open IE, click on Tools -> Windows Update, > then when the > site pops up, down load the critical updates. They don't even > have to check > the box, just hit the big blue arrow that says DOWNLOAD, then > reboot at the > end. > > For all the griping people do at/about Microsoft, they > couldn't have made it > any easier to keep a workstation up to date on basic security fixes. > > John Matteson; Exchange Manager > Geac Corporate Infrastructure Systems and Standards > (404) 239 - 2981 > > Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe > nothing because wise > men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious > doctrine. Believe > it only because you yourself know it to be true. -- Buddha > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dean Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 8:50 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Exchange Discussions (E-mail) > Subject: RE: Badtrans and SirCam > > > Yeah, well Mcafee 4.5.1 (NO SP) would not detect badtrans > with compressed > files set and scan default files (even tho PIF and SCR in the > default file > scan) the 4176/4.1.60 combination fixes that. So don't quite > blame the user > :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, 1 December 2001 2:46 a.m. > To: Exchange Discussions (E-mail); Advanced Mail Admins (E-mail) > Subject: Badtrans and SirCam > > > 399 hits in two days. Most are BadTrans or SirCam. > > One would think that these home users would have received a > clue or two from > all the news coverage of each outbreak. > > Ack... It disgusts me. > > John Matteson; Exchange Manager > Geac Corporate Infrastructure Systems and Standards > (404) 239 - 2981 > Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe > nothing because wise > men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious > doctrine. Believe > it only because you yourself know it to be true. -- Buddha > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > *************************************************** > This e-mail is not an official statement of the > Waikato Regional Council unless otherwise stated. > Visit our website http://www.ew.govt.nz > *************************************************** > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ---------------------~--> > See What You've Been Missing! > Amazing Wireless Video Camera. > Click here > http://us.click.yahoo.com/75YKVC/7.PDAA/ySSFAA/dpFolB/TM > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------~-> > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
