WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently

Posted by jamie on Friday August 15, 2003 @06:22AM 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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Safe until.... by SirLantos · 2003-08-15 06:28 · Score: 0, Redundant

...they publish the address of the new site and then someone else writes a virus that attacks that site. Instead of putting a band-aid on the problem why not just fix it? Just my opinion, SirLantos

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Re:Gates Memo repost - slowing... by Asmandeus · 2003-08-15 06:41 · Score: 1, Redundant

Trustworthy Computing is computing that is as available, reliable and secure as electricity, water services and telephony.

With yesterday's event, I'm thinking those aren't such good references anymore.