I heard that the web was slow today.

[James Bunnell]

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 03:22, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> Yep - thanks to a 6 month old known MS SQL exploit. God Bless Microsoft. 
> No, really - they need it. :)
> 
> Tell me, is there even one major or minor DoS attack on the internet 
> bringing zone servers and mega-networks to their knees that can *not* be 
> traced back to Microsoft exploits? IMHO, It would seem MS weaknesses 
> have cost Internet servers and users billions of dollars collectively, 
> while MS laughs all the way to the bank, totally beyond liability...
> 
> "The IT didn't patch the patch", "They left MS on the Trusted list", 
> "The user didn't have tomorrows virus protection", "That's a feature", 
> and "Oh crap" are probably commonly heard in the Microsoft offices. :)
> 
> Grimace,
> Mike
> 

I would not blame MS on this one. They did release a patch 6 months ago.
It is not their fault that IT cannot apply it. Common sense should
dictate this one.