From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-15 09:21:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F3D0881.90907@attbi.com> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <78g_a.4373$UB4.3323@nwrdny01.gnilink.net> <3F3ABAED.3060006@attbi.com> <3F3BA498.20709@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.31.71.243 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1060964484 66.31.71.243 (Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:21:24 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:21:24 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:21:24 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41524 Date: 2003-08-15T16:21:24+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > Actually I yesterday heard (after our university got attacked by the > MSBlast worm) that for one of our large equipments it was not allowed to > install windows updates because the program that controlled the > equipment (which is used for scientific work) would break. I told the > person in charge to contact the company and get the software fixed as we > cannot have a machine which is online so vunerable. Of course my point > is that the machine should not be online at all, but that is not so easy > to get through. I think that you will find that the issue is with Microsoft Update, not with Microsoft security patches. Of course, not running Microsoft Update and doing the patches yourself is more work. But I for one have to do it that way or my system will be unusable until everything is reinstalled from scratch. -- Robert I. Eachus "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure." -- Jacques Chirac, President of France "As far as France is concerned, you're right." -- Rush Limbaugh