Never have the above words been more true.

The network at my offices (both Cape Town and Johannesburg) have been hit by the deadly Conficker virus and the network has been crippled.

I was up till early Monday morning (yes, 3AM) writing domain logon scripts to try and get the infected PC's patched.

The sad thing thing, this was an easily preventable situation.

Microsoft has known about the vulnerability for a very long time.  read more »

My father-in-law to be was chatting to me today when we came upon the topic of viruses (virii?). Interesting enough, he made quite a good point today.

Viruses are abusing the OS's and the programs etc, not ONLY because of security vulnerabilities but also because they are supposed to be able to!

Think about it.

When VBScript was first designed it was designed as a scripting language that could help you automate a lot of tasks inside Windows.  read more »