> Anybody want to discuss the "downandup" worm? Nine-million served.
> Another MS non-success story. Their inability, after years of
> promising, to produce a secure operating system is a significant failure.
No I
> don't want to see more lame excuses.

Sure, I'll bite.

It looks like that MS did make good on their promise to deliver a secure OS.

Infection by OS version:
https://forums.symantec.com/t5/blogs/blogarticlepage/blog-id/malicious_code/
article-id/224

The Vista share barely registers next to XP's.  The worm can be completely
mitigated by installing a patch that has been out for months.  MS08-067:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx

And it's "downadup," not "downandup."  Sheesh.


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