I know a few people who don't trust Microsoft. Everytime they see a patch available from our friends in Redmond, they happily ignore it! "probably just a scam. probably Bill wants to know how much I'm using firefox and google!"
... uh - no.
Setting your computer to automatically accept patches from well established vendors like Microsoft, Adobe, and your Anti-virus vendor is a wise thing to do. EXACTLY for the reason shown in the article below!
Researcher: Worm infects 1.1M Windows PCs in 24 hours
Hmm, let's do the math - m'soft issued a patch in October - so that's about 70 days later someone has put together a nice attack based on it. That's a pretty long time to be sitting still without patching, but apparently there are millions of target boxes available!
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