Homeland Security says 'Patch Windows Now'

gregger writes "Wow, so the Department of Homeland Security is really concerned with Microsoft patches now... enough to come out and tell us to patch our machines. This warning, chronicled in eWeek, was issued less than a day after the release of 23 patches from Redmond. So, if you don't apply the patches, then what?"

Comments

Re:Typical over-reaction from the Slashdot staff

[Megaweapon]

Huh? How is the government 'saving face'? Did they create rails, or are you just a fucking idiot?

SLASHDOT is/may be attempting to saving some "open source" face, you fucking moron.

Went to microsoft.com/windowsupdate

[gsfprez]

and all i got was a rude error message.

that doesn't usually happen with Safari unless the website is down... curious...

Then nothing new, a waste of time and effort.

[twitter]

If you don't patch Windows, the terrorists win!

I'm not sure about OBL, but the spammers and assholes have already won. Not that applying the patch of the month will really help. After all, the spammers have known for years the problems being fixed this month and next month and so on ad nausea. The OS itself is just junk. That's why Windoze has a half life of 12 minutes, 80% of spam is coming from broken windoze boxes, the vast majority of email is spam and people with botnets can screw anything anyone wants to do online. With new problems found every month and none of the same problems on any other OS, you can't blame the users. North Korea is already taking advantage of the situation to spy. Directing people to constantly apply a stream of patches instead of abandoning Windoze is nothing but a waste of time.