Re: Is VMS losing the Financial Sector, also?

In article <Qwmji.3514$Np2.127@trnddc07>, John Santos <john@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

The answer, of course, is that a system exposed to a virus or an unpatched
exploit can get hacked anyway, no matter how competent the administrator.
Keeping up on patches and A/V is part of the job of the administrator.

But there is a race condition. What if the bad guy attacks before the
O/S vendor knows about the exploit, or the A/V vendor designs, implements
and distributes a test for it? Then you're up the creek. What are the
chances of this happening? Obviously, the more viruses and serious O/S
bugs, the greater the odds.


One problem there is that certain M$ patches have broken things,
sometimes quite seriously. This can lead to a certain reticence to apply
patches in a timely fashion.

--
Paul Sture
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