RE: New M$ vulnerability patch for Windows

[Chris Whisonant <Chris.Whisonant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve: I have a theory that if you religously apply the updates and dont 
open
attachments, then you cant be hacked and dont need a firewall. I hope
someone else can prove if that is wrong or not.

Chris: Well, in theory... Honestly, even if you get the fixes then you 
could still be hacked. Generally the fixes come out because the 
vulnerability is found. It couldn't be found if it weren't exploited. 
Furthermore, I have been running Win2K for about 2 years now and Microsoft 
has just released fixpacks for all the worm activity and hackers being 
able to view contents of memory, etc... This tells me that either it's 
been vulnerable for the entire life cycle of the product or it was broken 
by another fix. Either case proves to me that a firewall is a great idea. 
Check out www.sygate.com - they have a freeware personal firewall.

Getting this back to the iSeries, have you all installed that security 
patch for iSeries?

It's called OS/400

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
iSeries Certified Systems Expert
803.326.7270 (W)
803.326.6142 (F)
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