RE: Why NOT the web?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Walden H. Leverich
> 
> Just to be clear. The bug exists -- and has been duplicated -- from an
> interactive session. I'm saying that I don't see why it wouldn't
exists
> too in batch.

A. I've never seen said bug.
B. There is no real parallel for SysReq2 on a batch job.


> >"if a user visits a malicious website"
> 
> OK, perhaps I didn't make my point clear. We're speaking of servers
> here, not clients. I'm speaking of bugs that can infect a machine on
an
> Inbound request to port 80 (443 for SSL).

But once one machine on your network is infected, aren't all of them
exposed?  If you have read/write rights on a network drive, you've
potentially infected everyone who has read rights on that same drive (if
you're a payload worm).  And if a worm gets into a workstation, is it
likely that your server is completely firewalled from your INTERNAL
machines?  I don't think so.

So, one mistyped URL means infection to your whole network.
 
Joe