Frankly, I think MSFT should develop a secure version of its OS's going back to Win98 and offer them for free for a period of time ... 12 months would be about right.
This would do more good than doubling the bounty on the next virus writer, and the next and the next and the one after her.
Microsoft has got a legacy software problem it can't outrun ... it will have to face it square on or get run over by it.
Inside my home lan I'm not affected ... I run Linux on all my web-facing computers (4). But once I get to the web, it's a different story.
As I write this sco.com and caldera.com are both down. They were brought down by MSFT vulnerabilities every bit as much as by the worms that launched the attacks.
SCO is likely going to blame the Linux crowd ... but the attack isn't coming from Linux machines.
This would do more good than doubling the bounty on the next virus writer, and the next and the next and the one after her.
Microsoft has got a legacy software problem it can't outrun ... it will have to face it square on or get run over by it.
Inside my home lan I'm not affected ... I run Linux on all my web-facing computers (4). But once I get to the web, it's a different story.
As I write this sco.com and caldera.com are both down. They were brought down by MSFT vulnerabilities every bit as much as by the worms that launched the attacks.
SCO is likely going to blame the Linux crowd ... but the attack isn't coming from Linux machines.
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