Why Patching Is Important..

      by Wyatt Walter

The Telegraph reports that security researchers are saying over 8.9 million computers have been infected by a virus in the past two weeks which uses a vulnerability that had been patched by Microsoft months ago. Users have not patched their machines and it is allowing the virus to spread at a rapid rate. The virus spreads through a vulnerability in the Windows server service so it can spread across a LAN and will also use portable storage such as USB flash drives to travel from LAN to LAN. It has been called Conficker, Kido and Downadup and is said to be very difficult to get rid of. If you haven’t updated Windows since the end of October, please take the time to do so now. If you’re not infected already and haven’t patched, consider this your warning. Take the time right now to run your updated (no matter what OS you happen to run). Next to backup, this is one of the biggest things users look back upon and wonder why they didn’t take time before it became a problem.

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Filed under News : Comments (1) : Jan 20th, 2009

One Response to “Why Patching Is Important..”

  1. Conflicker is Alive | What a n00b! Says:
    April 12th, 2009 at 10:11 am

    [...] of Conflicker or no longer April-foolin’ around. The virus spread around for months using a Microsoft vulnerability in Windows that was patched in October, but was idle until April 1. On that April 1 date, the virus started [...]

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