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Windows 24 Hr Vulnerabilty Patch - Would It Help?

Posted by Cliff on from the don't-hold-your-breath dept.

super_ogg asks: "In light of the recent Windows infection rate problem, it prompted me to ask the question: if Microsoft was able to guarantee a 24-hour-patch for a vulnerability (and hell didn't freeze over), how much would it affect the rate of infection seeing that a lot of people don't patch their systems? Would the rate of infection increase dramatically?"

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  1. Not much. Yet. by Deathlizard · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most of the Vulnerabilities happen weeks to months after a patch is released. It's just getting the patch on the machine that's a problem.

    As XP SP2 starts to overtake XP SP1 and SP0 sales, it should get better, since SP2 screams and yells if you turn off automatic updates. This is going to take a while since most people are paranoid of SP2 or MS won't let them install it cause their OS is a pirate.

    Hopefully in longhorn, they do the same thing they did with .Net 2003 SP1 and firewall the internet until windows downloads all the critical patches. This would stop the 12 minute problem pretty quickly.

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