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Story: Firms urged to use unauthorised Windows patch

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Posted by: Nobody (Wednesday 4 January 2006, 5:37 PM)

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Maybe it's me or something, and I am a little paranoid, But to accept a supposed third-party patch, for a virus is kinda crazy. What if the patch is the cause of the virus, I mean, we can't trust Microsoft in the first place, but it's better than trusting a third-party sometimes. How many times have you downloaded a third-party plugin or extra and don't they always warn you? How do we know it's not the same thing this time? How do we know it won't cause the virus and that's it's just some guys making crap up? But that's me. I'm a paranoid psycho, So you don't have to listen to me.

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