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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2008-05-26
I found it astonishing that only 10% of Windows users have NOT applied the update.
Whenever I get IM spam or IM viruses sent to me from a friend, I send them a message and say "Dude, you've got a virus, it's trying to send itself to me". Every time, the person replies and says "Yeah I know". Well, if you know, then why the fug are you still online and allowing it to infect your friends?!
Once, I suggested to one of them that it might be a good idea to disconnect from the Internet until they had removed the virus. "Mind your own business". Well, it IS my business if you're sending me viruses and slowing down the whole internet by contributing towards spam. On a similar vein, yesterday I told someone that they were sending viruses through IM and they said "Yeah I know, I'm going to buy an anti-virus next month". Heavens above, that's over two weeks away!
Windows users need to start taking responsibility for their computers. A virus is something that needs to be attacked ASAP to protect your money, your identity and other people's computers. No wonder all these worms, trojans and viruses run rampant on the Windows platform if users don't consider them important enough to do anything about them!