Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible

[Tom Buskey]

On 4/19/06, Jon maddog Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
>
>
> About a year ago there was a report done by a series of security experts
> warning
> about the issues of creating "one generic brand of operating system, on
> one
> generic brand of instruction set" and watching as the worms and viruses
> attacked
> it full bore like a virus in a field of generically identical corn.  Their
> conclusion was that it was better to have a mix of OS and
> architectures, even if the standards of interface were the same.
>
> One of the authors of this report was mysteriously fired by his company,
> who
> valued the business of Microsoft



Dan Greer.  @Stake - now owned by Symantec and not doing consulting for
Microsoft.

*sigh*  The IT systems were very secure there.  IT and many of the
consultants were anti-Microsoft and converted the Exchange/Outlook
environment to imapd/Eudora one weekend.  Users came in and said, umm
where's my email?  Use Eudora.  Address book?  Schedule?  Uhh....  We'll
install ummm Meeting Maker.

It was an interesting and fun place to sysadmin to say the least.  It's also
interesting how it became Microsoft friendly.
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