BitDefender®, a global provider of award-winning antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today that malware exploiting Microsoft Windows graphics dominated the BitDefender Top 10 Malware List for January 2008. According to BitDefender Labs, the malware exploiting Microsoft Windows graphics rendering an engine vulnerability detailed in MS06-001, which was patched post-SP2.
“It is probable that a large number of unpatched copies of Windows exist in the wild, mostly pirated ones which don’t download patches to avoid dealing with activation, hence the continued ‘popularity’ of this exploit among virus writers,” said Sorin Dudea, head of BitDefender AV Research.
This just emphasizes the fact that updating your operating system and programs is critical.
There may be many factors that enter into the reason for not updating.
Actually critical updates are also delivered to WinXP SP2 systems regardless of their state (original or pirated). Optional downloads are not possible with pirated ones.
Hmm… Windows XP SP2 CD I have checks licence number, I was not able to apply it on one pirated system… Original SP2 CD directly from MS… ??? So, you need to install SP2 to get updates, but lot of people have old XP’s with SP1 or even without it… :
