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Microsoft: Many customers running unsupported operating systems
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| As the Conficker worm continues to burrow into more Windows systems, it’s
| become apparent that not only are many users failing to keep up with their
| patching, but many others are running older versions of Windows for which
| patches aren’t available.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2205
Gibbon, Lenny and Cambridge are supported. The customers should move to these
and so a favour to the Internet, too.
Recent:
Virus strikes 15 million PCs
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| A virulent computer virus has infected as many as 15 million computers around
| the world so far, according to various estimates.
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| The virus -- a self-replicating computer worm known as Downadup, Conficker or
| Kido -- spreads across computer networks using Microsoft Windows software
| which have not been patched or updated properly. Microsoft issued a patch
| that fixes the vulnerability the virus exploits last October.
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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/26/Virus_strikes_15_million_PCs/UPI-19421232924206/
Beware of botnets
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| Unpatched Windows 2000 or XP machines make great honeypots given the ease
| with which one can take over such systems.
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http://www.examiner.com/x-3924-Houston-Linux-and-Security-Technology-Examiner~y2009m2d20-Beware-of-botnets
Related:
With Vista breached, Linux unbeaten in hacking contest
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| The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on
| the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that
| remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer
| hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/032908-with-vista-breached-linux-unbeaten.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
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