> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monty J. Harder [mailto:lists@kc.rr.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 10:00 AM
> To: Becker, Rob; kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Completely off topic: FW: Trustworthy Computing
> 
> 
> > - Keeping ahead of security exploits. Distributing updates using the
> Internet so that all systems are up to date. Windows Update
> > and Software Update Services, discussed below, provide the 
> infrastructure
> for this.
> 
>   Has it ever occurred to anyone that WU itself, if it ever were
> compromised, would become the mechanism to spread a worm to 
> EVERY SINGLE
> "TRUSTWORTHY" COMPUTER?
You mean like the 100,000 CDs M$ recently distributed with updated code
and 
a nasty virus too?
:')