1 in 5 Windows PCs still hackable by Conficker

Author: Ryan Naraine
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From Computerworld (Gregg Keizer)
Although the media blitz about the Conficker worm prompted a significant number of enterprise users to finally fix a six-month-old Windows bug, about one in five business computers still lack the patch [computerworld.com], a security company said today.
Scans of more than 300,000 Windows PCs owned by customers of Qualys Inc. show that patching of the MS08-067 vulnerability — a bug that Microsoft fixed with an emergency update issued in October 2008 — picked up dramatically two weeks ago. Read the full story. Also see our previous coverage of the Conficker threat.

From Computerworld (Gregg Keizer)

Although the media blitz about the Conficker worm prompted a significant number of enterprise users to finally fix a six-month-old Windows bug, about one in five business computers still lack the patch [computerworld.com], a security company said today.

Scans of more than 300,000 Windows PCs owned by customers of Qualys Inc. show that patching of the MS08-067 vulnerability — a bug that Microsoft fixed with an emergency update issued in October 2008 — picked up dramatically two weeks ago. Read the full story. Also see our previous coverage of the Conficker threat.

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