In Reply to: Installed base is only one of the reasons, JerseySaab [Profile/Gallery] , Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:46:52

Microsoft has always chosen "feature over security". If they think they can sell it, the obviosu security holes are never a concern... until they get hacked, then suddenly MS spings into action.

My favorite was a few years ago when MS sold their web server with the ability for anyone on the Internet to call a program from anywhere on your web server, unlike every other web server out there - they didn't allow calls outside the web server virtual structure. It wasn't long before the rif-raff discovered that they could call c:\system\anything to run from anywhere. Doh. All part of MS's strategy to intergrate all their applications across the web server platform. Feature over security.

MS's solution was to lock down the rest of the server so that the calls would fail... making the security on the web server machine so difficult to manage that MS then had to come out with a program just to set it up. No one at MS could tell you what settings to make, they just said "run the security program".

If that wasn't ignorant enough, they also refused to establish a separate user security database for the web server, insisting that it had to use the NT user security and/or Active Directory. Once again, great as an integration feature, terrible as a security feature. Now every one with a user/pass account from a web page has access to the web server machine itself or the corporate network. Again, feature over security.

My rant for the day :-)


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• Help! Computer problem, No Snaab, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 05:39:01
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  • How is your computer problem coming?, JerseySaab , Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:01:54
    • Re: How is your computer problem coming?, No Snaab, Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:57:06
  • Re: Help! Computer problem, Dean, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:03:54
  • Update, No Snaab, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 09:34:59
    • Re: Update, Craig, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 09:45:24
      • Macs can get viruses, just not many., Noel, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:13:45
        • Re: Macs can get viruses, just not many., Justin VanAbrahams , Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:07:24
          • Why do you say not to run old software?, bender , Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:40:05
          • Bogus virus clean up--update, No Snaab, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 16:14:27
            • Try Combofix followed by Malwarebytes, JerseySaab , Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:15:07
          • It's Malware, Craig, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:20:17
            • Another solution, westernny, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:02:59
            • Its the install base, Bruce, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:29:06
              • Installed base is only one of the reasons, JerseySaab , Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:46:52
                • Microshaft and viruses, nwas, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 13:53:35 <-- Viewing This Message
                  • Re: Microshaft and viruses, Justin VanAbrahams , Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:57:56
                    • Apple does sell servers, Windows-only PCs coming, JerseySaab , Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:20:21
                      • MS boot only, nwas, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 17:28:14
                        • It's disgusting, JerseySaab , Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:44:22
                          • We already have that, nwas, Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:13:54
                          • Re: It's disgusting, James, Tue, 4 Oct 2011 06:36:51
                      • Re: Apple does sell servers, Windows-only PCs coming, Justin VanAbrahams , Mon, 3 Oct 2011 16:24:58
                        • Re: Apple does sell servers, Windows-only PCs coming, JerseySaab , Mon, 3 Oct 2011 17:18:35
                          • Re: Apple does sell servers, Windows-only PCs coming, Justin VanAbrahams , Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:15:14
                            • Don't much care for Apple either, JerseySaab , Tue, 4 Oct 2011 06:14:44
                              • Re: Don't much care for Apple either, Justin VanAbrahams , Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:06:09
                                • iPad as a replacement, James, Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:13:52
                                • Re: Don't much care for Apple either, JerseySaab , Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:19:36
                            • very good description of the situation, James, Tue, 4 Oct 2011 04:13:30
  • Re: Help! Computer problem, Craig, Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:40:32
    • Re: Help! Computer problem, JerseySaab , Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:51:48
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