31 Quotes by Stephen Toulouse

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    Although infection rates are low, it doesn't mean it's not a bad situation, ... We want to make sure, not only are we providing information to make sure customers aren't impacted, but to make sure they know how to get back to an operational state.

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    This is why it takes so long, but that's not to say that if there's an exploit, we won't accelerate testing and get it out there as fast as we can. But if we find problems in the testing phase, it could trigger a restart and cause even more delays.

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    There's been some speculation that you can only trigger this by using an incorrect size in your metafile record and that this trigger was somehow intentional. That speculation is wrong on both counts. The vulnerability can be triggered with correct or incorrect size values.

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    There's been some speculation that ... this trigger was somehow intentional. That speculation is wrong.

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    It only affected Windows 2000. So far it has shown a very limited impact -- we're not seeing any widespread impact to the Internet, but we remain vigilant.

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    The key thing is really that we want to make people understand the risk with these flaws and that they enable automatic updates.

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    In general, many of these bulletins have a lower impact in terms of severity and are much more difficult to exploit on newer operating systems such as Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

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    If you aren't using Macromedia Flash Player, or know that you don't need it, you can disable the ActiveX control in Internet Explorer through the

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    The huge responsibility we have is that we have to answer to our customers, and our customers represent potentially hundreds of millions of different configurations.

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