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Re: Santa Fe city government computers knocked out by worm

  • From: Dr. Jeffrey Race
  • Date: Sun Nov 16 14:09:12 2003 
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 06:22:08 -0500 (EST), Sean Donelan wrote:

>
>http://kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=6232&cat=HOME
>
>No explaination why Sante Fe officials had not patched the city's
>computers in the three months since Microsoft announced the vulnerability
>and released the software updates.  Nor why Sante Fe didn't have up to
>date anti-virus programs running on its computers.


Nor why they were using such rubbish software for a mission-
critical system.