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Sorry to say it, but I find the recent rants about the MS Blaster worm from system admins a little silly. MS issued a patch on July 16th. That's how many days ago? Right. Now, when are the systems vulnerable? When port 135 is open to the outside, that's right. Now, how many days do you need to test every scenario? A week? At most. That's July 23rd, and you can start patching. That's how many days ago? Oh, you need to patch 1000 systems? Perhaps you should enroll some software MS developed ages ago to push installs onto client machines.
I know patching can be a pain, I know software like SMS can be a pain too (hey, I did the MCSE track in the early days of NT4.0), but that can't be an excuse of any network failures due to the blasterworm. If you as a sysadmin did your job well, nothing would have happened. True, if software engineers did their jobs also that well, you wouldn't have to worry one second... but you also would be out of a job, because who needs a sysadmin with perfect software?
Ok back to typing user documentation, my favorite way of spending time :)
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