http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2005/04/30/slashdot-microsoft-messenger-virus-hits-reuters-im/ Rumblings, Ramblings, and Ruminations Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:10:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2005/04/30/slashdot-microsoft-messenger-virus-hits-reuters-im/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Steve Sun, 01 May 2005 11:13:30 +0000 http://technoprimitive.org/wordpress/?p=554#comment-14 I find a security breach in an IM program less-than-shocking, and in a Micro$oft Messenger-based IM program NORMAL. We routinely REMOVE Messenger COMPLETELY from the XP computers at the place where I work--if it ain't there, it ain't a vunerability, is the way we think. However, the comments about IM in general I find interesting--all the way from "essential" to "counterproductive". Again, where I work, the IM client is the only thing keeping us from moving away from one piece of software we would really like to dump. As soon as we find a good IM replacement (which, I think, will mean as soon as I teach myself to set up and administer a server for Jabber) we will dump it and improve network administration simplicity 100%. By making it 100% Microsoft, ironically enough.......life is full of these little twists....but if we don't have IM, we will be drawn and quartered by the users of our network--and I can't say that I blame them. IM fills a need that is just too great to go unfilled, at least in our organization. I find a security breach in an IM program less-than-shocking, and in a Micro$oft Messenger-based IM program NORMAL. We routinely REMOVE Messenger COMPLETELY from the XP computers at the place where I work–if it ain’t there, it ain’t a vunerability, is the way we think. However, the comments about IM in general I find interesting–all the way from “essential” to “counterproductive”. Again, where I work, the IM client is the only thing keeping us from moving away from one piece of software we would really like to dump. As soon as we find a good IM replacement (which, I think, will mean as soon as I teach myself to set up and administer a server for Jabber) we will dump it and improve network administration simplicity 100%. By making it 100% Microsoft, ironically enough…….life is full of these little twists….but if we don’t have IM, we will be drawn and quartered by the users of our network–and I can’t say that I blame them. IM fills a need that is just too great to go unfilled, at least in our organization.

]]>