[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[Main, Kerry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of koehler at spock.koehler.athome.net
> Sent: January 21, 2009 3:47 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS
> 
> In article <6thdpsFb03nbU4 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
> (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> >
> > How many tmes you going to trot out this same tired story.  Getting
> hit with
> > a virus is not as much a OS or system problem as it is a user
> problem.
> 
>    Which is why we get hit with virii on VMS every day?
> 
>    Seriously, heavily trained Windows admins have not been able to
> protect
>    our Windows systems.  Not if they're plugged in and turned on.
> 
> _______________________________________________

Yep - most people who have not had to be a Wintel SysAdmin in a large 
company do not realize what an almost impossible job they have:

- they are the first to be blamed when one of the many new Trojans, 
Viruses, worms etc infects their company systems or desktops

- most large companies using Wintel literally have hundreds of small 
X86 systems all over the company in not only data centers, but under 
desks, closets etc.

- Microsoft releases 5-20 new security patches every month on "patch 
Tues"

- their mission critical Wintel App's requires App testing before
rolling out any OS patches, so for these systems, inevitably they are 
forced to only roll out new patches at best once/quarter. If a virus
does hit, see point #1.

- they do not have control of what runs on many internal systems e.g. 
Dev/QA other than maybe backups. Hence, they do not know what specific
services or apps these systems might be running.

- their Sales/Marketing/Mgrs users love to use their new Windows OS 
PDA's at home, airports and conferences, then plug them directly into 
the internal work wireless LAN's and desk PC's. These PDA's are simply
just another unprotected Windows OS floating around the company.

- their end users often leave their desktops powered off at night to
be "green" friendly, but scream like crazy when a AV scan is done on 
their PC during the day

- Microsoft releases 5-20 new security patches every month on "patch 
Tues" [did I mention that already :-)]

- See point #1


Regards

Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
Voice: 613-254-8911
Fax: 613-591-4477
kerryDOTmainAThpDOTcom
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