>>>>Hi Mike,
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>>>>You may be the exception :-) Within 10 minutes of first turning on our DSL line here, one unpatched machine got the Blaster - mine. Everyone else was up to date, firewall up to par, etc.
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>>>Was that Microsofts fault?
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>>Yep - their RPC vulnerability - not mine.
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>Which they had fixed and provided a patch for that you didn't see fit to install.

Hi Bob. I dont think that's a good argument. The flaw was there and presumably many end-users got burned. The fact that afterwards MS provided a fix is a good thing but does not in itself excuse the flaw.

You asked Jim a question if it was MS's fault and he answered. It was. Or at least theirs and the virus writers.