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Re: OT: why they use IIS (was "red worm amusement")



On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:02:00PM -0500, JonesMB wrote:
> this morning I read an interesting article on the "red worm amusement"
> topic that led to the weekend's heated discussion.  the article is at
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010723/tc/it_bugs_out_over_iis_security_1.
> html
> 
> here are a few interesting quotes from the article - 
> "Despite the widespread perception of IIS as a nonsecure server, many
> customers say that ... it (IIS) will remain their server of choice because
> they are too committed to Microsoft to make a switch practical or affordable."
> "I would switch if I could convince my company to do it,"
> "It's hard to find good Unix security guys"
*rotfl* yeah and out in the wild are so many MSCE wich are all up to
date with their security patches ... so the Code Red Worm had no
chance to spread ...

Sven
-- 
Subject: Re: woody hanging
> WRT subject.
> $ apt-get install viagra ;-)
[Karsten M. Self in debian-user]



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