[access-uk] Re: Why you should patch Windows
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:51:26 +0100
Hi Andrew,
I sincerely hope you will be able to reverse that policy where you now
work. "Reckless", is putting it mildly.
By the way, MS have just released SP1 for Exchange Server 2003 - it's a
nice 100+ Meg download, and took about a hour to install on our cranky
only Server.
I've not checked today, but what's the betting there a Critical Update
for it already? (Smile)
George.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 2:44 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Why you should patch Windows
> Hi all,
>
> Of course, you all know this, but here is a little story for you:
>
> A local university recently had network problems. A year ago, they
had
> spent thousands of money on a large expensive firewall, to stop
viruses
> coming in from the outside.
>
> Since they had this firewall, they didn't bother to patch any Windows
> workstations, other than installing the latest service packs (SP4 in
the
> instance of Windows 2000, and SP6A in the instance of NT4).
>
> A couple of years ago, whilst I was still there, I asked them what
they
> did regarding internal security of workstations, the answer was that
the
> firewalls would take kare of all this.
>
> Anyway, I got a phone call yesterday from someone who still works
there,
> because early yesterday morning, a member of staff (who is still
> unidentified), plugged in their laptop into the network as normal, not
> realising they had the virus. Within minutes, over 100 Windows
machines
> were infected with Blaster, shutting each other down, and bringing the
> entire network into a mess. The technical team spent the whole of
> yesterday patching the systems up, but also having to ensure the
systems
> that were not switched on were also patched.
>
> The frightening thing is, that where I work, the exact same policy is
> used (i.e, don't patch until the next service pack comes out).
>
> Andrew.
>
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