Yes, the "five 9's" of reliability that MS talks about is more like .99999 of the time than 99.999%. Another possibility is that some things WERE on MS and while not connected to the internet directly, were infected via a laptop or other internal system.
-Darren On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 12:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At least on the west coast they do not, I think the requirements of the > systems are way out of Microsoft's range. Lot's and Lot's of Unix > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Scheidell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:36 AM > To: tetsujin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] east coast powergrid / SCADA [OT?] > > > > > > Paller said it is "highly unlikely" that the process control computers > > > behind critical infrastructure like power in the United States would > > run on the Windows operating system. > > well, ONTARIO HYDRO does seem to have SOME windoes boxes.. at least here > is one that appears to have been infected with slammer: > > http://www.hackertrap.net/LID.pl?IID=39335068 > > (Aug 9th through the 12th?) -- ----------------------------------------------- Darren Bennett CISSP, Certified Unix Admin., MCSE, MCSA, MCP +I Sr. Systems Administrator/Manager Science Applications International Corporation Advanced Systems Development and Integration ----------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html