On 02/03/05, "Miller, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How come it is always about controlling the symptoms and not the
> illness? The vast majority of these
> "spam drones" are compromised WINDOWS machines. If the operating system
> and dominant email applications so easily allows the users' machines to
> be taken over by a third party, then there is something wrong with the
> operating system and the mail applications. It occurs to me that the
> solution is not to limit the range of destruction, but to defuse the
> bomb. Perhaps the focus for a solution should move up the model to
> layer 7.
Upgrading and/or replacing the OS for every Windows user on the
planet is an educational issue. Keeping the network viable
while you figure out how to do that is an operational issue.
--
J.D. Falk uncertainty is only a virtue
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