Looks like CNN got hit by the Zotob bot worm. It seems that their IT folks don't patch regularly and haven't migrated to Windows XP as well. So it looks like they went to somewhere that had an infected network and bing they had the virus everywhere. And this guy needs to buy a clue as well:
"I cannot believe this is happening," said Mike Murray, the director of research at vulnerability management vendor nCircle. "It just blows my mind. Microsoft's idea of an operating system lifecycle is just crazy. Patching and security matter on the old legacy stuff as much as on the new stuff."
Um they did patch the vulnerability early last week. I have updated my home and work machines already with no problems. Microsoft can only do so much before the admin needs to take things from there. MSFT should have publicized it more or something but who knew this thing would move so fast.
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