From: Mike N. 

On Sun, 4 May 2003 10:08:39 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>I have a problem with that, if you connect a machine to the internet BEFORE
>it's patched, it can get compromised by worm before you get it patched from
>windowsupdate. ESPECIALLY if it's got IIS on it.

   I agree that connecting a virgin machine (windows or *ix) directly to the
internet will
get you hosed.   So far I have been working from a very small network where the
other PCs
are not hosed.   Since it's NATted and has firewall rules, the worms don't
cross into the
LAN.

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