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WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently

Posted by jamie on from the and-fix-your-software dept.

Precisely nineteen months ago, Bill Gates sent out a memo to employees (and the press) announcing that security was Microsoft's number-one priority. Today, about a hundred readers have submitted the news that Microsoft.com went down last night. And now, the company has "extinguished" WindowsUpdate.com (future updates will come from a different domain). All this because of some Microsoft worm that triggers at midnight. Related news: Windows Update says you're protected, but maybe you're not; WU.com briefly ran Linux, heh; worm variant with clever "anatomical term."

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  1. microsoft.com also ... by bigjocker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft.com also pointed to a linux machine

    jejeje ... reminds me of the whole hotmail DNS thing a few years back (my favorite slashdot story ever):

    Merry christmas Microsoft, from the Linux comunity to you ...

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  2. Re:A moving target is still a target by MntlChaos · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *ix does provide a way: run *ix instead of windoze

  3. Facts you won't see by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Facts you won't see: Microsoft had 2 announced holes last month. Linux has 9.

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