Number of computers hit by Windows worm has skyrocketed to well over 8 million!

sk3

anewhope wrote: »

All that has to be done is to install the update and the situation no longer becomes a concern.

Before the worm, which is spreading at an unprecedented rate, does any damage to your files, or steals sensitive data from your computer/server/company. The economic damages of malware are estimated at between 10 and 20 billion dollars a year.

sk3

DatabaseError wrote: »

If I spoke Russian, or Chinese...

Good thing the Russians and Chinese aren't connected to the internet then, oh wait...

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sk3 wrote: »

Before the worm, which is spreading at an unprecedented rate, does any damage to your files, or steals sensitive data from your computer/server/company.

Home users should at very least have the notifications for WU enabled, the majority should just set it to automatically install updates for them, but I could predict the uproar over "it keeps bugging me to restart, it's too annoying, how do I turn it off?"

Corporate Windows networks should be running WSUS. I would question the capability of any group of IT person that doesn't, or doesn't have an alternative to ensure their workstations are constantly updated.

sk3

anewhope wrote: »

Home users should at very least have the notifications for WU enabled, the majority should just set it to automatically install updates for them, but I could predict the uproar over "it keeps bugging me to restart, it's too annoying, how do I turn it off?"

Yes, ordinary people should do a lot of things to maintain their Windows PCs, but ordinary people don't know much about computers, let alone anti-viruses.

Corporate Windows networks should be running WSUS. I would question the capability of any group of IT person that doesn't, or doesn't have an alternative to ensure their workstations are constantly updated.

Most users in businesses insist on using their own laptops and fail to maintain them properly. It happens a lot and is a nightmare for Corporations using Microsoft products.

Another example involves universities and hospitals which use Microsoft products. They keep cutting down IT staff to curb the mounting software and hardware budgets, to save taxpayer money. Those computers and networks are very poorly maintained.

DatabaseError

sk3 wrote: »

Good thing the Russians and Chinese aren't connected to the internet then, oh wait...

Then they can read the warning here, then