[COLUG] What good uses for Flash are there?

[Jonadab the Unsightly One]

frank_rieder at bankone.com writes:

> Off topic: It also makes me uneasy that after reloading Windows 2000
> on my fiances' computer last night, Sasser got me before the updates
> could be downloaded.  Shows me there are others out there that STILL
> have not updated their computers.

Given the number of Windows systems in active use and my personal
experience with the frequency with which a typical Windows system
needs to be reinstalled, I am virtually certain that this will
continue to be the case until that version of Windows is so hopefully
obsolete that almost everyone upgrades away from it.

You see, at any given time, there is a large enough population of
Windows systems in the process of having Windows reinstalled that a
worm can thrive just on those systems, even if all fully-installed
systems are patched.  It has to be a worm that spreads quickly,
infecting new systems within a very few minutes of gaining control of
the system, so traditional lie-dormant-for-weeks viruses are out, but
a lot of the recent worms spread quickly enough to make it work.

The solution is to install Windows from behind a NAT gateway or
firewall.  Frankly Windows should always be behind one anyway.

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