From: "Geo." 

lets assume that a root level exploit is discovered every 2 months and that
it takes 6 months to get a patch. That means that at any particular moment
in time Microsoft knows of 4 back doors to every windows computer on the
planet.

Would you accept it if Microsoft hard coded a back door into windows?
Because by allowing this kind of time to get patches that is exactly the
same result.

Geo.

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:402adeaa$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Hey, the hole was there LONG before someone found it.  At least it wasn't
> publicly disclosed for 6 months with no patch.  Would you rather have
every
> hacker trying to exploit it before it was fixed?  I'm sure there are more
> holes we don't know about that haven't been found.  Guess the only real
> answer then is to just turn off your computer until all the holes are
fixed.
>
> At least eEye didn't announce what they found till the fix was available.
>
> --
> Glenn M.

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