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Story: Networks crippled by worms' onslaught

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What I find really surprising is how can someone be so brain dead to implement Microsoft products in critical applications. I don't blame sysadmins, but rather
the higher IT bosses who buy absolutely anything from Microsoft PR types who are getting paid to over-glorify the "superiority" of Microsoft products.

I don't sped a lot of time watching TV, but reports should follow of such issues. Especially you won't hear something like "Instead of spending all your time looking for new patches and latest antivirus definitions why not install Linux".

If all critical applications are switched over to Linux then in future there will never be headlines like "MSUtter.P (just a random name) 'Worm virus' (sound ridiculous? I KNOW!) has been the worst case of DDOS completely wiping out even Microsoft's internal network for developers so the patch is not likely to be developed for another several months. The reason is a very unusual one: the central servers which contain source code for Windows have been infected by MSUtter.P and the files have been encrypted with random 14336 bit codes generated from MD5
hashes of randomly reading lines of the file itself. Microsoft decided that unencrypting the source code is impossible". The only backups of 1 months old code tree was on a Linux server which everyone forgot about, luckily this server wasn't affected by MSUtter.P. Under those circumstances Microsoft needs to use the source code found on the Linux file server and redo the last month's work entirely! Coders are staying in late, some haven't left the building in several days already. Sleeping bags can be found in corners of offices...."

Just a though

Best regards

Oleg M

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