Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003

Re:Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Wi... by vkou on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @02:35AM (#19916930)

I've worked at a company where the build server was full of viruses, because devs kept spinning up unpatched XP VMs, who would inevitably get Conficker, and whatever other shit was hanging around on our intranet.

Nobody gave a shit about it. And this wasn't some crazy seat-of-the pants startup. It was a mature software company, employing >40 engineers (in that division alone), that had been building, and selling software for many, many years.

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Re:Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Wi... by egorfine on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:20AM (#19917376)

I have had a VM server like that. About a dozen Windows images each launched from a known good snapshot for the test suite to run. Afterwards VM is killed and reverted back to the snapshot. Viruses? Couldn't care less. The whole lifecycle of the VM was like 40 minutes.

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Re:Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Wi... by vkou on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:53AM (#19919975)

40 minutes of an unpatched computer on that network was 35 minutes too long.

We'd also develop inside VMs. That is, we'd install Visual Studio, our product, Seapine source control...

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