[Info-vax] 2009 VMS Bootcamp notice

[jls]

On 23 Jan 2009 13:44:11 GMT, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
wrote:

>  There are millions and millions of Windows boxes out
>there.  A hacked Windows box sells newspapers and magazines.  A Windows
>success story does not.  We are being innundated now with stories of
>"4.9 million" Windows boxes infected with a worm that MS published a
>fix for months ago.  So, who's fault is it that these machines are now
>getting infected?  Windows? MS? Or is it maybe closer to home.  (Hint:
>none of the machines under my control have been hit nor are they even
>vulnerable.  Go figure!)

Well, now you're changing the argument.  At first you said that a
windows or unix system sitting there not being patched is just as
secure as a vms system in the same state of maintenace.  This would
seem to contradict that notion, at least for Windows.

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jls