On Friday 13 August 2004 11:28 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:00:45 -0400 > > Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: > > > So, keep it up MS and Norton! I made 700 bucks this week! > > > > I had a very similar experience very recently. Some virii bypassed > > Symantec's NAV scans entirely and were stopped by an open sourced > > scanner I was using. > > > > Quite frankly the latrine level drivel that M$ continues to vomit forth > > is repelling. > > Of course, the MS bumboy Tim Mullen on SecurityFocus, has his usual > fellatial praise for those incompetent boobs in Redmond: > > "Now, even with these tremendous advancements in XP, [Huh??!!] some people > are going out of there way to find fault with it, as they seem to do with > all things Microsoft. In fact, some of this is just downright hypocritical. > [Howzat?] Security researchers and analysts continually blast Microsoft for > security issues, and have done so forever (I've even done it.) [I don't > think I've ever seen that...] But now that the company has responded in a > significant way, [with what, a firewall that doesn't work?!] it gets bad > press for releasing a Service Pack that might break ISV applications. > > The truth here is that if an application breaks, it really did need fixing > anyway." > > Ooooh, I see, it's the *application developers* fault for not bowing to MS > and making their apps 'compatible' with this shite called a Service Pack. > No, what we as a 'security community' need to do is abandon MS altogether. > > Oh, wait, what's that at the bottom of the page? > > "SecurityFocus columnist Timothy M. Mullen is CIO and Chief Software > Architect for AnchorIS.Com, a developer of secure, enterprise-based > accounting software. AnchorIS.Com also provides security consulting > services for a variety of companies, including Microsoft Corporation." > > Wow, what a coincidence. > > Link: > > http://securityfocus.com/columnists/259 I work in the U.S. Government as an engineer, and we had system wide message that instructed us not to install the sp2 as it would break several of the programs we run. Mostly non-MS progs. And everyone there thinks I am a bit strange cause I keep muttering "linux is the answer" under my breath. :-) -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842
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