And about 5% of business machines infected with the worm, says Qualys
Although the media blitz about the Conficker worm prompted a significant number of enterprise users to finally fix a six-month-old Windows bug, about one in five business computers still lack the patch, a security company said today.
Scans of more than 300,000 Windows PCs owned by customers of Qualys Inc. show that patching of the MS08-067 vulnerability -- a bug that Microsoft fixed with an emergency update issued in October 2008 -- picked up dramatically two weeks ago.
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Although the media blitz about the Conficker worm prompted a significant number of enterprise users to finally fix a six-month-old Windows bug, about one in five business computers still lack the patch, a security company said today.
Scans of more than 300,000 Windows PCs owned by customers of Qualys Inc. show that patching of the MS08-067 vulnerability -- a bug that Microsoft fixed with an emergency update issued in October 2008 -- picked up dramatically two weeks ago.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131501
