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The rootkit menace
Although I didn't attend this session by two Microsoft program managers at RSA 2005, IDG News Service did and filed a chilling report. Rootkits are bad news. They give added incentive (as if any were needed) to organizations to apply anti-virus and firewall software to their systems, particularly Windows. I'm appalled to hear here that many Windows XP users haven't applied Service Pack 2 because they're still on a dial-up connection. I agree with sentiment that Microsoft should distribute Service Pack 2 on CDs in every post office, right next to the AOL CDs. It's not too late for Microsoft to do something more than they're doing. And what about those using older versions of Windows?
Posted on February 17, 2005 at 08:46 AM | Permalink
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