« Postponing RSI for $43.95 | Main | Help for Outlook users »
August 17, 2005
Microsoft lesson of the day: Patch early. Patch often.
Executives of the New York Times, CNN and the US TV network ABC - among many other companies - will be asking some searching questions of their IT departments today after they were hit by the Zotob worm, patches for which were released by Microsoft on August 9. The worm hits Windows 2000, and some early versions of Windows XP.
You can understand how these things happen. How many times in the past have people installed new patches, only to find that an unexpected bug threw their systems into chaos? Unfortunately, what with the malware community proving itself to be a good deal more adept at responding to security holes than Microsoft is at fixing them, these days, anyone who doesn't immediately apply a remedy is asking for trouble.
You might like to check to see whether you've installed the latest critical patches.
Posted by cw at August 17, 2005 11:53 AM
Comments
One that we can't hang on Microsoft - Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader across many versions and all known platforms. http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/321644.html
BTW There's a glitch in the critical patches url.
Posted by: Ananda Sim at August 17, 2005 02:01 PM
The URL for the faulty link for critical patches is http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-aug.mspx
Posted by: Aubrey at August 17, 2005 08:09 PM