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echo: osdebate
to: Geo.
from: Richard B.
date: 2007-05-02 08:29:18
subject: Re: Survey: 30% Of Businesses Have No Plans To Upgrade To Windows Vista

From: Richard B. 

On Tue, 1 May 2007 19:27:12 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>I mean servers and desktops, and since 1995 they have had limited internet
>access (only business related stuff) and email (without the ability to
>receive attachments directly) and in all that time we have had zero spyware
>and zero virus infections on the internal network.

I've had two machines get hit from going to exploited business sites in the
past.  Once machine was not updating virus defs and the other machine the
user decided to ignore company policy and let his daughter play with his
laptop when away from the office.  I've continued to tighten restrictions
but it is impossible, immho, to protect users from themselves especially
with zero-day exploits.

- Richard

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