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Friday, April 23, 2010
Infected XP owners left unpatched - BBC
Only those running Windows XP have been left without a patch. Some of the latest security updates for Windows XP will not be installed on machines infected with a rootkit virus. A rootkit is sneaky malware that buries itself deep inside the Windows operating system to avoid detection. Microsoft said it had taken the action because similar updates issued in February made machines infected with the Alureon rootkit crash endlessly.
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