> During my consultant slut days, I was tasked with building the ODBC backend > for a campus resource management system and the vendor specified SQL Server, > so that's what I did. After I hung up my hat on that job, Code Red blew
s/Code Red/Nimda/ They got hit by Code Red, too, but I wasn't around at the time. :) > through and knocked off all the Windows servers on the administrative > network ... except that one. They did a forensic analysis and discovered > the reason "my" box didn't fall victim was I had written a very restrictive > set of file-sharing permissions instead of accepting the Windows default. > The worm couldn't get in. > > It never occurred to the other admins to do that. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- "Logan! You renewed!" ------------------------------------------------------
