Virus Bomb
Mar. 7th, 2004 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceagleBe very careful today, everyone. :/
I just received a boatload of viruses and who-knows-what-else to ALL of my unpublicized, barely used broadband accounts. Luckily I have full isolation of these, they can't launch and they can't be passed on or propogate, but there may be something sinister brewing out there in cracker-land this weekend... so please be careful :|
Turn off PREVIEW if you use Outlook Express or Netscape Messenger mail, and go to OFFLINE to read messages, even pulling out your connection cord to the internet while you look at if you won't be too inconvenienced. And don't click on anything suspicious.
*grumble grrrrr...*
I just received a boatload of viruses and who-knows-what-else to ALL of my unpublicized, barely used broadband accounts. Luckily I have full isolation of these, they can't launch and they can't be passed on or propogate, but there may be something sinister brewing out there in cracker-land this weekend... so please be careful :|
Turn off PREVIEW if you use Outlook Express or Netscape Messenger mail, and go to OFFLINE to read messages, even pulling out your connection cord to the internet while you look at if you won't be too inconvenienced. And don't click on anything suspicious.
*grumble grrrrr...*
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Date: 2004-03-07 04:22 pm (UTC)I hope you're joking.
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Date: 2004-03-07 05:01 pm (UTC)TCO is a primary driver of desktop OS choice. User training costs across a standardized application suite, hours of admin/desktop, vendor software support and other similar corporate realities are my drivers.
I've never had a job applicant that didn't know how to run Outlook and Word on Win32 for example. The company spends $0 on that, compared to say Mozilla on *ix which has significant user training costs associated with it.
On the admin side, compare setting up and configuring CUPS on every desktop compared to the printer sharing in Win32 - the added admin time and user training burden is non-trivial in admin resources (corp speak for $).
My last experience with large scale Apple networks was purging Mac OS 7 and converting a company (~500 PCs in three locations with a WAN and Sun OS/Solaris server backbone) to NT 4 back in '97, so I'm stale on Mac-ology. I do like the idea of BSD under OS X, but X is pretty new and still suffering from some teething pains.
Mac OS XI running MS Office has the potential to put *ix corporate desktop in larger numbers, but anytime you roll out multiple OS's, you effectively split your IT desktop wallet into pieces and drive costs up, which is a bad thing.
CYa!
Mako