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Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software


From: Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:27:45 -0700

Can anyone find the circular definition in this story?  It's amusingly
subtle.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:

“.... Bradley Antis, vice president of technical strategy at Orange,
Calif.-based M86 Security, [siad] the 15 software vulnerabilities that
were most often exploited in the second half of 2010 could have been
stopped dead in their tracks — all already had been patched by their
vendors.... The vulnerabilities continued to spread only because
countless PC users didn’t bother to update their software, leaving
enough unpatched machines on the Internet to allow the exploits to
thrive."


http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/best-way-avoid-virus-infection-update-software-0685/

Apparently, Epsilon did not get the memo.

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