| Weblog: | Microsoft gets serious about security | |
| Subject: | Yes, but.. | |
| Date: | 2004-03-11 11:39:50 | |
| From: | tlaurenzo | |
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Response to: Yes, but..
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I recently ran in to this with my father-in-law. He has three computers which formerly connected to the internet via dial-up (and three teenagers who are always downloading and installing wonderful jewels from the internet). He got DSL, so I purchased a broadband router and installed a network covering all of the computers. One of the first tasks I was going to accomplish was to download all patches/service packs and clean the computers from the nasties. However, just plugging any of these PCs into an Ethernet network caused them to fload the broadband router with packets. It overloaded the NAT tables and nothing could get out to the internet... so much for downloading patches. If these were linux or unix machines, I would log in to single user mode, kill all unnecessary processes and be assured that I could do system maintenance without combating all this crap. But it's Windows... and I'm going to spend the better part of my Saturday fixing the stupid stuff Microsoft peddles on the unsuspecting populace. At least once I clean it up, there will be an external firewall in place to add some barbed wire to their systems. Now if I can just get the to agree to only give the kids non-privileged accounts... |
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