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Think massive worm outbreaks are obsolete? Then say hello to the Conficker worm, aka Downadup. In January it slithered onto millions of computers unprotected by a critical patch that Microsoft had issued back in October.

The patch fixed a hole in the Windows Server service, most desktop and server versions of Windows use. Without it, a PC is vulnerable to attack by infected PCs across a network. A firewall can block external attacks of this sort, but business network firewalls generally offer little protection against threats from within the network. And businesses can be slow to patch company computers.

An aticle highlighting the importance of applying secuirty patches to secure the infrastructure and prevent unexpected system behaviour or loss of service. This becomes just as important in the virtual world as it does in the physical world, virtualization is simply a different way of provisioning the platform, how you patch, upgrade and continually evolve the platform is the cost of doing business virtually or physically.

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