Reply #22: Ditto

[SOteric]

I didn't receive any mail that a patch was required and a link explaining it was available. If there was a posting on the MSN home page, I didn't see it. - And I actually read it pretty much daily.

I'm a registered user. I even have done contract work in their offices and I know they're aware of where and how to reach me when my payment is late or they want me to come in a do a little work for them. You'd think this would be at least equally important.

I don't blame Microsoft for not making a perfect product. A lot of folks make less than perfect products. I blame the culture of acceptance and encouragement for hackers and crackers. I blame the dude who designed the worm and unleashed it, somehow thinking that his grudge with Bill Gates was sufficient cause to interfer with the normal discourse of business and interaction for millions of people.

And no, I'm not particularly willing to accept much in the way of blame for the fact my PC was infected. If I had known it was vulnerable, I would have patched it. As soon as I knew there was a problem, I dealt with it. My only "bitching" was that it was fooking inconvenient to deal with. I stand by that statement.

BTW, I had an active, functioning fire wall at the time and a great many ignorant people, - even on this forum, -assured me (in spite of obvious evidence to the contrary) that this kept me safe. Some of y'all might want to think long and hard about what you "know" to be factual.