Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Apr 2009 15:19 UTC
The Conficker worm, which spreads by infecting Windows computers who are not properly kept up-to-date, was supposed to make a big splash on April 1, but that day passed with a deafening silence on the Conficker front. Since then, there has been some movement by the worm, and data gathered from enterprise users of Sophos' Endpoint Assessment Test indicates that 10% of Windows machines have still not been properly patched, leaving them wide open to a Conficker infection.
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No this doesn't make any sense. You buy a device, you are expected to maintain it. Doing software updates is part of the day to day life of a computer user, be it windows, mac, or linux. That's like saying you should buy a car and never have to put gas in it or change the oil, it should do it by itself? See? It makes no sense. Whenever somebody purchases a product, there are some constraints that have to be met, in the case of a car you need to fill the tank and change the oil, tires, etc. With a computer you need to do updates.