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About Win32.Worm.Downadup and its removal

Bogdan BOTEZATU

January 09, 2009

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About Win32.Worm.Downadup and its removal
The estimated number of infected PCs is at 500.000 and rising. Considering the fact that it first appeared in late November 2008 and that Microsoft issued a patch for this vulnerability on the 23rd October 2008 several questions arise:
1.    How come so many systems are still vulnerable to the worm?
2.    Is this the beginning of a new botnet?
 
To answer the first question: it seems people fail to see the importance of system patches, especially the ones rated with a

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Bogdan BOTEZATU

Bogdan is living his second childhood at Bitdefender as director of threat research.

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