Conficker wakes up, updates via P2P, drops payload | Security - CNET News
CNET updated its article about the Conficker worm. This worm has been getting a lot of press lately, and you can find lots of information on it so I'm not going to bore you with the details.
What I do want to do is use this as an illustration of how important it is to keep your computer patched! The patch for the exploit that this worm uses to infect your system came out almost six months ago. If you set your computer to automatically update every night at 3:00am, and then just leave it on overnight once a week, you never have to worry about worms like Conficker that rely on old vulnerabilities to infect your system.
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