[LINK] Spyware trojan hitching ride on third-party Mac screensavers

Malcolm Miles mgm-ns at tardis.net
Wed Jun 2 22:12:15 AEST 2010


On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 19:40:10 +1000, you wrote:

>There is still the fact that there are many, many machines running  
>Windows unpatched, many pirated.  The decision to not allow pirated  
>windows machines to be patched ...

Security patches are not denied to pirated copies of Windows.

"There seems to be a myth that Microsoft limits security updates to
genuine Windows users," wrote Microsoft’s Paul Cooke, who works in
Windows Client Enterprise Security. "Let me be clear: all security
updates go to all users."

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Best wishes,
Malcolm





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