Comments on: Nimda ate my weekend… https://dfarq.homeip.net/nimda-ate-my-weekend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nimda-ate-my-weekend David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:04:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/nimda-ate-my-weekend/#comment-3384 Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:16:22 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=636#comment-3384 Dave, hope that you came away from Promise Keepers with some spirtual meat to chew on and savor in your soul.

Nimda hasn’t hit me, because I only download e-mail attachments if I know exactly who it’s from and I pay attention to the title of the attachment that I’m opening.

If those percausions aren’t enough, please make "All I Know About Nimda" the subject of a future article (more of a joke than a suggestion; but, if the title works…)

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/nimda-ate-my-weekend/#comment-3383 Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:40:27 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=636#comment-3383 Only a fool runs IIS. That’s established. Especially now that you can even get an ASP module for Apache, so you can migrate your IIS stuff over to a real operating system like Linux, BSD, or OS/2.

But I’m liking Windows less and less on the desktop. NT/2000/XP doesn’t allow a regular user to do as much as the Mac does, change-wise, but it still allows far, far too much.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/nimda-ate-my-weekend/#comment-3381 Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:00:29 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=636#comment-3381 Oh. Duh. There’s the other solution too, which appeals to the extremist in me. Ban Windows and Mac OS entirely and run some flavor of Unix on the desktop. Unix viruses are rarer than honest politicians, and Unix is easy to lock down so users won’t mess with it.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/nimda-ate-my-weekend/#comment-3382 Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:36:51 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=636#comment-3382 Dave,

Agree on banning Windows for web and email servers. Leave the deskop for now. Then let the next wave of windows desktop viruses (and there will be) drive Windows from the corporate desktop.

One of problems in our organisation (50,000+ wordwide) were nitwits who have IIS servers running on their desktop computers.

Either they didnt know it was running?? or they were using it to publish a small groups web site. Of course they had never been patched since Adam was a boy!

"give a man a fish and he will eat today, give an idiot a rope and he will hang himself"
Anonymous.

Tim

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