Microsoft Won't Offer Patch Before Worm Strikes?

techmuse writes "According to an article in Information Week, Microsoft is aware that the 'Kama Sutra/Blackworm/MyWife' worm will hit on Friday, overwriting office documents, but will not release a patch until its regular monthly patch release on February 14th. Unless, that is, you subscribe to one of Microsoft's pay security services, in which case your machine will have the worm removed in advance." From the article: "The blog offered no explanation why the tool wouldn't be updated earlier, nor did Microsoft immediately respond to questions. Each month, Microsoft pushes a revised tool to Windows users who have Automatic Update enabled for Windows Update or Microsoft Update. The Redmond, Wash.-based company has released the Malicious Software Removal Tool off-schedule once before, in August 2005, shortly after the Zotob worm began striking Windows 2000 systems."

Comments

Let them eat worms.

[banaanimies]

Let them eat worms.

Bill "Capone" Gates?

[antarctican]

Microsoft security is sounding more and more like a protection racket...

"It'd be a shame if anything happened to those Word documents of yours..."

Seems quite logical...but...

[tetabiate]

Microsoft is not innovating anymore, just fixing bugs and preparing patches for malware as soon as possible consumes a lot of resources. Given that Vista shares its codebase with Windows XP/2003 the situation is not going to change. How do they plan to deal with it?

  - MS to customer: which bug do you want me to fix tomorrow?

Two words

[Billosaur]

Déjà vu