Blaster body count '8m or above'

Blaster body count '8m or above' - MS
John Leyden, The Register 2004-04-05

The infamous Blaster worm infected far more PCs than previously thought - at least eight million, according to Microsoft.

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Why publish a body count 2004-04-06
Anonymous

There is no reason to publish a body count this only tells the hacker how good his attack was.

I have handled cases of Blaster and other windows viruses. Now broadband network connections. The machine can be reinfected before a reinstall is complete yep hope this is fix The filewall should. Ot...

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Article Name change... 2004-04-06
Anonymous

This article shouldn't be called "Blaster body count '8m or above' - MS"...it should be called:

"User body Count. 8 Million more dumbasses that use MS software"...

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MS customer tracking? 2004-04-10
Anonymous

I'm not as concerned about the Blaster count as I am about Microsoft tracking customers.

This article says, "More than 16 million PCs submitted to Windows Update were infected by Blaster."

This implies:

1. Microsoft is tracking customers.

2. Microsoft is using the tracking information for pu...

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