>
> Of course, the root cause of this situation could be placed on Microsoft's
> marketing as well -- Microsoft's markteing pushes their products as
> suitable for office environments WITHOUT the need for a well-trained
system
> admin(*).  "untrained" system admins rarely, if ever, keep systems up to
> date (especially in respect to "security patches").  'Those that would do
> you harm' [the "negative" connotation of hacker/cracker] know this is
> typically the case and devise attacks against Microsoft products [and most
> likely originate these attacks from Unix systems...]
>
Well yes and no.  It is ironic that the latest virus(Code Red) did not
affect
Windows'98 users.  Being out of date didn't hurt here.

Nick D.

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