[Full-Disclosure] Microsoft moves beyond patches

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Thu Oct 2 19:29:48 BST 2003


On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:50:15 CDT, Ron DuFresne said:

> Unless you are promoting host based defense, which is not quite there yet,
> and an administrative nightmare, I think you'd find a strong argument this
> is *not* the case, at least at present.

Tell that to all the corporate nets that have been whacked by a worm brought
in on a laptop, VPN connection, or other similar backdoor.

(yes yes, I know it's a "failure to define perimeter correctly".  The fact that
it wasn't defined correctly *IS* the problem with the technology....)
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