"this vulnerability was discovered July 16th, so they've had plenty of time"
Less than four weeks, and the next worm may follow the release of an exploit more closely.
You think that's plenty of time for a typical home user? So, they should be updating every two weeks or something?
Not that I disagree they should update more often, but it seems like it will be a while before this is a realistic expectation.
Even corporate environments will have a hard time updating desktop boxes that often with all the concerns about potentially breaking things.
If you manage to get everyone updating every week or every day (and have update servers that can handle the load) you get different vulnerabilities if anyone can break the update servers.
Damn shame this effected 2003 dispite the secure programming effort.
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Date: 2003-08-12 05:02 pm (UTC)Less than four weeks, and the next worm may follow the release of an exploit more closely.
You think that's plenty of time for a typical home user? So, they should be updating every two weeks or something?
Not that I disagree they should update more often, but it seems like it will be a while before this is a realistic expectation.
Even corporate environments will have a hard time updating desktop boxes that often with all the concerns about potentially breaking things.
If you manage to get everyone updating every week or every day (and have update servers that can handle the load) you get different vulnerabilities if anyone can break the update servers.
Damn shame this effected 2003 dispite the secure programming effort.