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On Fri, Nov 23, 2007, Leigh Porter wrote: > > > We have a load of test kit here running Windows, it frightens me as it > gets moved from lab to lab office to office and nobody runs anything on > it to keep in check. > > It's a sad sad world when you need anti virus software on your lab test kit! > > I mean really, how screwed up is it to run Windows on a spectrum > analyser and then leave everything open, on SP1 with no firewall and no > patches and then go plugging it into peoples networks. I believe a local university physics department had a STM (microscope) running Windows 95 or Windows 98 + embedded stuff. The drivers broke whenever you tried patching it away from the shipped software version. The academics demanded that the device be accessible from everywhere so they could drag/drop data files to/from other universities on the thing. With a public IP address. Adrian
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