RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-04 Thread Al Lilianstrom
: Thursday, November 03, 2011 5:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts I'd be petrified. Double that if users using it are browsing the internet from the machine with them installed. Triple that if they're browsing as a local admin. Quadruple if they're

RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-04 Thread David Lum
Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts I'd be petrified. Double that if users using it are browsing the internet from the machine with them installed. Triple that if they're browsing as a local admin. Quadruple if they're domain admins. On the other hand, if they're off

RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
Issues Subject: RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts I’d be petrified. Double that if users using it are browsing the internet from the machine with them installed. Triple that if they’re browsing as a local admin. Quadruple if they’re domain admins. On the other hand, if they’re off network

RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-04 Thread David Lum
: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts Yeah, on second thought, I wouldn't worry about Adobe at this point. As Al points out, old buggy software is far from your biggest concern. Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint On Nov 4, 2011 7:46 AM, David Lum

Re: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-04 Thread Jonathan Link
admins. *From:* Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] *Sent:* Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:09 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts I’d be petrified. Double that if users using it are browsing the internet from the machine with them

RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-04 Thread David Lum
System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts That's simply not true. Old buggy software just becomes the vector for exploitation in a (no offense David) poorly administred environment. This would be a case of two wrongs making a wronger. Inadequate patching levels coupled

Re: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:45 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: ... all (eight) of our DA’s (except me) log in and browse as DA’s ... I hope you have your resume in circulation. I'm not kidding. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
% of our user base are local admins. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts I’d be petrified. Double that if users using it are browsing

Re: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-04 Thread Jonathan Link
threads, all (eight) of our DA’s (except me) log in and browse as DA’s, and 99.5% of our user base are local admins. *From:* Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] *Sent:* Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:09 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts I'd be petrified. Double that if users using it are browsing the internet from the machine with them installed. Triple that if they're browsing as a local admin

Re: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-04 Thread Jonathan Link
prolly toast. ** ** *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, November 04, 2011 9:14 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts ** ** Sure, but some battles can't be won... On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:00 AM

RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 5:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts We have a few dozen systems with Adobe 8 Standard which after today will no longer be patched with security updates. What is your guys

RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

2011-11-03 Thread Kennedy, Jim
, November 03, 2011 6:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts I’d be petrified. Double that if users using it are browsing the internet from the machine with them installed. Triple that if they’re browsing as a local admin. Quadruple if they’re domain admins