Re: most common reasons Windows servers are unpatched?
- From: "Michael D. Ober" <obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.nospam.>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:48:45 -0600
"Bennett Haselton" <bennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:f9a9c62f-33e1-4f78-88d2-cf4d34e7ecc4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Given the number of worms like Conficker that are based on known
exploits and don't work against machines with the latest security
patches installed, what do you think are the most common reasons that
PCs aren't patched?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/19/conficker_worm_feed/
says that according to a security firm that scanned hundreds of
thousands of PCs in January (with permission, I assume), about 30% of
machines scanned had not applied the emergency out-of-band issued by
Microsoft in October, and the firm estimated that it was due to "slow-
vulnerability patching cycles in enterprise users".
Is it just because people are afraid of their machines getting hosed
by the updates:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/131770-1/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws
that so many people have them disabled, including server
administrators? Or have they turned off automatic updates by
accident? (This seems unlikely, because you have to be reasonably
proficient to find the option in Control Panel to turn off automatic
updates.) Or is there some other reason?
Bennett
That particular patch brought down my entire domain.
.
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