I don’t know a single admin who enables the feature anyway. By concept alone, it’s a bad idea and always was... bug or not.
Yep. Too many better alternatives. Some of the newer SysAdmins want to snatch everything that's shiny. This is why not.
Not all sysadmins are Great SysAdmins.
Shiiete happens, and you might be surprised at just how many compromised systems there are out there at any given moment.
Plus, VMware is getting more and more popular as time goes by, so some mistakes are bound to cause problems. Here is good info on one such ‘problem’.
Pass the word, won’t you now. :)
...you don’t use VMware tools on your Windows systems?! That’s literally the driver package for the VMware hardware abstraction layer.