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Due to lazy administrators. A patch was issued to fix this, home users have autoupdate on, those who have it off know enough to check for updates on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Not a fault of Microsoft but of the admins. Luckily it won't spread far since its limited to Windows 2000 and most organizations are running XP. Plus of the millions upon millions of PCs running Windows, only 200,000 hits being reported which is a really small number when looking at the big picture. I wonder how many of those reports are duplicates from the same machines, I'm guessing one third to one half, which in turn decreases the number of people infected even more.

Posted by: Loverock Davidson   Posted on: 08/22/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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