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Microsoft Says Two Basic Security Steps Might Have Stopped Conficker
coondoggie writes "If businesses and consumers stuck to security basics, they could have avoided all cases of Conficker worm infection detected on 1.7 million systems by Microsoft researchers in the last half of 2011. According to the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence report, all cases of Conficker infection stemmed from just two attack methods: weak or stolen passwords and exploiting software vulnerabilities for which updates existed."
It's nothing like the Windows situation where you get a bag of critical patches forced down your throat every Patch Tuesday, and then your Windows box loves to reboot right in the middle of whatever you are doing. Sheesh.
No possible way to construe that as a troll, it is a fact. About Windows. The worst operating system ever forced on the world by illegal means.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.