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Very Informative answer
I agree that all the practices you mentioned are really common sense and should be diligently applied on every platform.

Since you appear to be familiar with patching concerns, can you let me know how much the diligent repatching of the msd windows is costing ?

- backup times

- down times/lost productivity

- downloading times

- space

- correcting a botched patch

- reboots

- lost network BW from all the worms on the LAN/WAN caused by MS windows

and HOW OFTEN you have to carry out your patching cycle?

Also, if you compare the same with other platforms, eg, UNIX, VMS, z/OS, OS/X, etc. that would be great.

thanks
-m
Posted by: michael-t   Posted on: 02/25/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Another day, another virus  Chad_z | 02/25/04
ummm what does this have to do with patching?  JoeMama_z | 02/25/04
Another day, same virus  jfrankcarr | 02/25/04
Wow....  James T. Kirk | 02/25/04
too bad it deletes files  datsunrobbie | 02/25/04
I totally agree  tallguy779 | 02/25/04
A virus is a virus...  JimSatterfieldW | 02/26/04
what honest service  V Sanders | 02/28/04
personaly  V Sanders | 02/28/04
This is a Trojan.. No patchng required, just some good security practcies  Heatlesssun | 02/25/04
Sadly you are preaching to the choir here  Squawkbox | 02/25/04
Well have you seen J. Leno's newspaper clips  michael-t | 02/25/04
Very Informative answer  michael-t | 02/25/04
If you stay on it and use the right tools, not too much time  jfrankcarr | 02/25/04
Amen!  cmh510@... | 02/25/04
Ohh came on... it's OK  michael-t | 02/25/04
ms is taking a proactive look at security  V Sanders | 02/28/04

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