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Story: Hackers attack IT conference

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The serious issue here is simply that some people do not have the patience to download and install all those patches. Or they simply don't think it matters.

I know people in the software industry itself who haven't patched their systems to SP2. Perhaps the real issue here is the things SP2 breaks rather than what it fixes.

One workable solution would be to have ISPs promote service patches, firewalls and visus scanners, perhaps even offer the send major updates out on CD. No one would ever trust an email from microsoft anymore, besides which it is the ISP who get effected the most by these issues.

Virus scanners update themselves, but unless you have SP2 already you may never actually get it to download automatically oon dialup or if you aren't online much.

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