In order to propagate, both these worms used known security vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system, vulnerabilities that at that time were already addressed by Microsoft and fixed by security updates it had released. The huge number of computers that were infected serves to show a lack, both in awareness on the side of users as well as in effective tools for administrators to consistently enforce a Windows patch management policy.
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