[LINK] MS strikes again

[Jan Whitaker]

from another list:
>I was listening to Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte in a recent Security 
>Now podcast, and they were discussing a situation in which the 
>Windows automatic update had shut down a bunch of computers in a 
>hospital operating room wing to do updates automatically... 
>unfortunately it was *during* active surgeries...  then the hospital 
>turned off the Automatic Updates feature of Windows and ended up 
>getting infected with a worm...

Confick or Downadup Worm Can Be Squashed: By Common Sense

<http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/101302/confick-or-downadup-worm-can-be-squashed-by-common-sense.html>

<http://enclavesecurity.com/blogs/kellitarala/2009/01/21/hospital-ignores-sysadmins-disables-windows-update-pays-the-price/>
Hospital ignores Sysadmins, disables Windows Update, pays the Price




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