While I agree that there seems to be a lot of hunting for "BIG SECURITY HOLE"; the issue is the same as always. It could have been much better. The trouble is that nearly everybody who uses a computer has no idea what they are doing. They need to be protected from their own ignorance. Micorsoft could have made this patch so much better by getting outside help from the people who have found previous security holes in Windows. Instead we get a "gift from the GODS" that will not really slow down the spread of new viruses.

Infected Windows systems are plugging up the internet. How much bandwidth is being wasted by the Netsky viruses? Why is orders of magnitude of more viruses for Windows than ALL other operating systems combined? Will this patch cut the number of infected systems in half? If not, why not? In the time it took to write this 18 Windows systems tried to hack my computer. Not bad for 2 minutes.

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