Day Two

Here we are on Day Two of the deadly sinister extremely critical Windows Metafile exploit disaster. The worldwide damage is astronomical. The malware (it isn't a virus or worm, as far as I can tell) is out of control, entire countries are reporting outages, satellites are falling from the sky.

I probably won't be able to finish this -=-//qdfj;[]][p]l,

Comments

[Martin McKeay]

You, sir, are a mean, evil, sarcastic man. And those are your good points. Actually, I agree with you that any vulnerability that requires user interaction is going to be slower to propogate, but that doesn't mean there's no danger. I'd rather have too much attention paid to this vulnerability and force Microsoft to respond quickly rather than have this swept under the rug.

For the most part, the news being put out on this vulnerability isn't really aimed at the end user anyways. It's aimed at the Network Administrator, IT Managers and Security Guys. We're the ones who are going to manage the networks that have to deal with this vulnerability. I doubt anyone who's not involved in IT is reading many of the blog post on this subject.

[Pete]

@Martin -

I think this issue is worthy of a bit of sarcasm. I will (likely) follow up later with something a bit more serious that attempts to dissect the salient points.

Btw, I never said there was no danger.

[Dave Dows]

@Martin

"I'd rather have too much attention paid to this vulnerability and force Microsoft to respond quickly rather than have this swept under the rug"

as in The Boy Who Cried "Wolf!"?

And what will you say when Microsoft becomes complacent because people are always claiming that everything is EXTREMELY CRITICAL, even when it's not? Wouldn't you prefer that they respond MOST quickly to worms such as Blaster and Slammer?