Years-Old Conficker Worm Still a Threat

RedEaredSlider writes "The Conficker worm is still a threat, even though it is more than two years old and nobody has used it in a botnet attack yet. The problem is that so many machines are infected (largely because many don't realize it) and it's such a flexible piece of malware."

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Re:WGA/pirated copies of Windows

[FreelanceWizard]

This is not true.

"The Automatic Updates feature is not affected by the WGA validation check. Therefore, you can use the Automatic Updates feature to make sure that you receive critical Windows updates."

Only some updates are marked as "genuine only," and this doesn't include security updates (which are all critical).