Re: Windows 2000: Unsolicited Testimonial

G.T. wrote:
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Our last worm problem was introduced by a malicious visitor with a laptop.
Not an issue for a small home or business network but can be for a large
corporation with 100s of offices spread around the world.  We patched 1000s
of machines today via SMS but those machines that are excluded from SMS are
still vulnerable.


I'm curious - what measures can one do to _prevent_ these kinds of problems? Pointers to web resources are appreciated.

--
Bradford J. Hamilton
"All opinions are my own"
"Lose the MAPS, and replace '-at-' with @"
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