RE: Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps ?

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Friday, March 19, 2004 10:15:06 AM +0000 Random Letters 
<randomisedletters () hotmail com> wrote:

> <opinion>
>
> The only way to 100% secure a Windows client machine is to take it away
> from the user and lock it in a cupboard.
[snipped a bunch in the middle.
> If Windows was 100% secure, why bother at all with patches and virus
> updates?

Write this on the chalkboard 100 times.

"Nothing is 100% secure!  Nothing is 100% secure!  Nothing is 100% secure!"

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

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