I wonder if this email was really from a Microsoft employee. Would he/she have pointed out the Nimda/Code Red debacles? Of course, the "employee" mentioned that this remote root exploit was "much worse." I suppose it's hard to compare the two. Of course, you probabl shouldn't have a service such as FTP running on a server not in a DMZ.
Personally, I would always install the ProFTPD server right away, and wish that Red Hat would use this as their default FTP server with its (better, not perfect) security history and Apache-style directives. I guess I would be surprised if this email was actually written and authorized to be sent by a Microsoft employee with its admonition of the Nimda/Code Red debacle. Regards, Brandon On Thursday 06 December 2001 02:43 pm, you wrote: > Mmm, > > I'me fairly new to linux and have a few questions for you folks' about > this Email from M$ . > > How much of what they say is true? They are obviously taking great delight > about the issue but how much is just MS properganda meant to divert the > public eye from Code Red etc? > > Am I right in reading that this Email was sent by MS to their customers? > If so, are all their communications so unprofessional and badly written, > let alone, so unethical? > > Did RedHat act badly by releasing information and a patch before others? > > I pressume that the fuss is about Security Advisory - RHSA-2001:157-06, if > so I am grateful to RH for alerting me (that is, after all, why we > subscribe to the alerts list) and allowing me to make an informed choice as > to wether my system is at risk. My view (opinion only) , if MS and other > developers know about the problem then so do the crackers, why wait. > > I really do not know much about the IT world, but my experience is that MS > and MS products are dishonest (the box looks great ...) and that Linux is > an 'honest' concept. As a customer I demand Honesty from products and > vendors, MS do not fit that bill (,Bill). RH do, however. > > Mike > > RE: FUD alert!. > > On Thursday 06 December 2001 19:47, you wrote: > > Here's an email that was forwarded to me, originally from a Mircosoft > > employee to his customers. The FUD factor is off the scale! > > > > <snip> > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
